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(a)

The Governments of the Marshall Islands and the Federated

States of Micronesia shall be immune from the jurisdiction of the
courts of the United States,

and the Government of the United

States shall be immune from the jurisdiction of the courts of the
Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia.

(b)
The Government of the United States accepts responsibility
for and shall pay:
(1) any unpaid money judgment rendered by the High Court
of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands against
the Government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific
Islands or the Government of the United States with
regard to any. cause of action arising as a result of

acts or omissions of the Government of the Trust Ter-

ritory of the Pacific Islands or the Government of the
United States prior to the effective date of this

Compact;

(2) any claim settled by the claimant and the Government
of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands but not
paid as of the effective date of this Compact; and
(3) settlement of any administrative claim or of any
action before a court of the Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands, pending as of the effective date of
- this Compact, against the Government of theTrust Territory of the Pacific Islands or the Government of the
United States, arising as a result of acts or omissions of the Government of the Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands or the Government of the United States.
(¢)
Any claim not referred to in Section 174(b) and arising from
an act or omission of the Government of the Trust Territory of the

Pacific Islands or the Government of the United States prior to the

effective date of this Compact shall be adjudicated in the same manner as a claim adjudicated according to Section 174(d).
In any claim
against the Government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,
the Government of the United States shall stand in the place of the

Government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
A judgment
on any claim referred to in Section 174(b) or this subsection, not
otherwise satisfied by the Government of the United States, may be
presented for certification to the United States Court of Appeals

for the Federal Circuit, or its successor court, which shall have
jurisdiction therefor, notwithstanding the provisions of 28 U.S.C.
1502, and which court's decisions shall be reviewable as provided
by the laws of the United States.
The United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit shall certify such judgment, and
order payment thereof, unless it finds, after a hearing, that such
judgment is manifestly erroneous as to law or fact,

or manifestly

excessive.
In either of such cases the United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit shall have jurisdiction to modify
such judgment.
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