{"id":777008528,"date":"2023-08-24T06:34:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T09:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777008528"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:45:13","slug":"ccc-seeks-us100k-after-ipi-injunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ccc-seeks-us100k-after-ipi-injunction","title":{"rendered":"CCC seeks US$100k after IPI injunction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Commonwealth Casino Commission has requested the sum to cover fees and costs after its appeal against Imperial Pacific International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Northern Mariana Islands.- The Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) is claiming a sum of US$100,000 in fees and expenses after a successful appeals court decision against Imperial Pacific International (IPI). The court decision related to the regulator&#8217;s revocation of IPI&#8217;s casino licence and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ccc-reconsiders-date-of-ipi-revocation-hearings\" target=\"_blank\">a dispute regarding arbitration procedures<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June 2023, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/court-rules-in-favour-of-ccc-over-ipi-casino-licence\" target=\"_blank\">ruled in favour of the CCC<\/a>, reversing a previous District Court judgment that had halted the regulatory agency&#8217;s revocation of IPI&#8217;s casino licence. The appeals court mandated CCC to engage in arbitration to address its disagreements with the casino operator. The reversal affirmed CCC&#8217;s authority to initiate revocation proceedings and deemed injunction against CCC&#8217;s actions as wrongful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CCC is also claiming compensation for the monetary damages it incurred due to the injunction. It says the District Court&#8217;s order forced CCC into arbitration, leading to expenses, including administrative fees, arbitrator payments, expert fees, travel costs, and other related expenditures.\u00a0According to Mariana&#8217;s Variety,\u00a0<strong>the CCC has reported expenses exceeding US$94,068.15<\/strong> for the period from October 2022 to the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government attorneys noted that IPI&#8217;s failure to fulfil its casino regulatory fee obligations since 2019 has severely impacted CCC&#8217;s financial capabilities. This has resulted in employee terminations and an inability to pay for office space maintenance and administrative needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ccc-chair-opposes-bill-to-put-regulators-on-part-time-salaries\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CCC chair opposes bill to put regulators on part-time salaries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Casino Commission has requested the sum to cover fees and costs after its appeal against Imperial Pacific International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) is seeking US$100,000 in fees and expenses from Imperial Pacific International (IPI) following a successful appeals court decision that affirmed the CCC's authority to revoke IPI's casino license. This claim includes compensation for costs incurred due to a previously wrongful injunction and IPI's long-standing failure to meet regulatory fee obligations, which has severely impacted the CCC's operational capacity.","focusai_entities":"Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC), Imperial Pacific International (IPI), US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, District Court","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI's Financial Viability?","query":"What is the current financial standing of Imperial Pacific International, and how will these additional legal costs and outstanding regulatory fees impact its long-term operational viability and potential for market re-entry?"},{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Impact?","query":"How does this successful appeal by the CCC strengthen the precedent for regulatory bodies to enforce license revocations and recover costs from non-compliant operators across other jurisdictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,439],"tags":[21613],"class_list":["post-777008528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legal-news","tag-commonwealth-casino-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777008528","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=777008528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777008528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008535,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777008528\/revisions\/777008535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777008528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777008528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777008528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}