United States Ninth Circuit

The state of Hawaii's requirement that trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs be "Hawaiian", abridges the right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment, and violates the Voting Rights Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/06/2002
• Decided 12/31/2002
• Published 12/31/2002

Judges

• Before WALLACE, TASHIMA, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Deborah G. Kiley, Sacramento, CA, for amicus curiae Pacific Legal Foundation.


• For Appellees:
  
• Girard D. Lau, Deputy Attorney General, Honolulu, HI, for the Defendants-Appellants., Patrick W. Hanifin, Honolulu, HI, for the Plaintiffs-Appellees.