The Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia is the highest court in the

Federated States of Micronesia The Federated States of Micronesia (; abbreviated FSM) is an island country in Oceania. It consists of four states from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosraethat are spread across the western Pacific. Together, the states comprise a ...

. It was established by Article XI of the

Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia The Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia is the supreme law of the Federated States of Micronesia. It was adopted in 1979. History Constitutional drafting began in June 1975. It was ratified on October 1, 1978, and took effect on ...

. It has both a trial division and an appellate division. The appellate division can hear both appeals from state courts and from the trial division: justices serve in both the trial division and the appellate division of the court, but cannot sit on an appeal of their own decision. The court has original and exclusive jurisdiction in cases affecting officials of foreign governments, disputes between states, admiralty or maritime cases, and in cases in which the national government is a party except where an interest in land is at issue. It has a concurrent jurisdiction with the state courts in relation to cases arising under the Constitution; national law or treaties; and in disputes between a state and a citizen of another state, between citizens of different states, and between a state or a citizen thereof, and a foreign state, citizen, or subject. It has exclusive jurisdiction over allegations of violations of the National Criminal Code.

Judges

The court consists of the

Chief Justice of the Federated States of Micronesia The Chief Justice of the Federated States of Micronesia is the seniormost judge of the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia. The position is established in article XI, section 2 of the federal Constitution. As per article XI, se ...

and not more than five associate justices. The court currently has three justices: * Chief Justice Dennis K. Yamase * Associate Justice

Beauleen Carl-Worswick Beauleen Carl-Worswick (born September 1962) is a Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesian judge. She has been an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia since September 2010. She is the first woman judge of t ...

* Associate Justice

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Judges are appointed by the

President of the Federated States of Micronesia The president of the Federated States of Micronesia is the head of state and government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). The FSM president, by virtue of his or her office, is the head of the FSM Cabinet and is in charge of the admin ...

with the approval of two thirds of the

Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia The Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia has 14 non-partisan members: ten members elected for a two-year term in ten single-seat constituencies and four members elected for a four-year term, one from each state at-large. Speakers of t ...

References

External links

The Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia

Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia at ''PacLII''
{{Oceania topic, Supreme Court of, title=Supreme Courts of Oceania , countries_only=yes Law of the Federated States of Micronesia

Micronesia Micronesia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania, consisting of about 2,000 small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It has a close shared cultural history with three other island regions: the Philippines to the west, Polynesia to the east, and ...