22. Equal Protection v. Race Based Restrictions on Land Ownership in American Samoa and the Pacific Islands

<p>Jeff Teichert discusses the landmark case of Craddick Development v. Craddick in the High Court of American Samoa, which considered whether: (1) conveyance of a beneficial interest in land to a non-Samoan constitutes "alienation" of land in violation of American Samoa's race restrictive land alienation laws and; (2) if so, does the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution forbid the enforcement of the land alienation laws?&nbsp;</p>