three former IPI workers<\/a>\u00a0who demanded an unspecified amount of damages and a jury trial after accusing the company of discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Turkish plaintiffs, \u00d6zcan Gen\u00e7, Hasan G\u00f6k\u00e7e, and S\u00fcleyman K\u00f6\u015f, had claimed through attorney Richard Miller that IPI committed discrimination based on their nationality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the lawsuit, the company hired other construction workers, including Taiwanese workers under the H-2B visa programme during the same period that it hired the plaintiffs to work at the Garapan Palace Casino. The Taiwanese workers had the same or similar level of skills, qualifications and experience as the plaintiffs in the types of jobs they performed but were paid much higher wages, in some cases nearly twice as much, the lawsuit alleged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, IPI pro hac vice counsel Daniel Weiner <\/strong>filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the plaintiffs did not present a reasonable case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal court has issued a temporary restraining order against the Commonwealth Casino Commission that will expire on June 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":11654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"A federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands has issued a temporary restraining order against the Commonwealth Casino Commission, postponing a hearing on the permanent revocation of Imperial Pacific International's casino license. This ruling grants IPI more time, with the court citing potential disproportionate damage to the operator. Concurrently, a separate discrimination lawsuit against IPI by former workers was dismissed.","focusai_entities":"Imperial Pacific International LLC, Commonwealth Casino Commission, Ramona V. Manglona, Andrew Yeom, \u00d6zcan Gen\u00e7, Hasan G\u00f6k\u00e7e, S\u00fcleyman K\u00f6\u015f, Richard Miller, Daniel Weiner","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, Garapan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Authority Impact","query":"What are the long-term implications for the Commonwealth Casino Commission's regulatory authority and enforcement capabilities following this federal court intervention regarding IPI's license revocation process?"},{"label":"IPI Financial Viability","query":"How does the requirement for a $100,000 security deposit and outstanding supplier claims reflect on Imperial Pacific International's current financial solvency and its ability to meet future regulatory obligations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156,158],"tags":[24134,22674],"class_list":["post-30119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-imperial-pacific-international","tag-ipi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30142,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30119\/revisions\/30142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}