United States of America, Ex Rel. James R. Richards, Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior v. Lorenzo De Leon Guerrero, Governor and Custodian of Records for the Department of Finance, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Herman S. Sablan, Applicants-Appellants. United States of America, Ex Rel. James R. Richards, Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior v. Lorenzo De Leon Guerrero, Governor and Custodian of Records for the Department of Finance, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

4 F.3d 749 26 Fed.R.Serv.3d 1162 UNITED STATES of America, ex rel. James R. RICHARDS, Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Lorenzo De LEON GUERRERO, Governor and Custodian of Records for the Department of Finance, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Respondent. Herman S. Sablan, et al., Applicants-Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, ex rel. James R. RICHARDS, Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lorenzo De LEON GUERRERO, Governor and Custodian of Records for the Department of Finance, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Defendant-Appellant. Nos. 92-15884, 92-16372. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Jan. 14, 1993. Decided Sept. 1, 1993. Howard P. Willens, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC, for respondent-defendant-appellant De Leon Guerrero. Michael W. Dotts, Law Office of Robert J. O'Connor, Saipan, MP, for applicants-appellants Sablan and Salas. Douglas Letter and Joan E. Hartman, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for petitioner-plaintiff-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.…