United States Ninth Circuit

A challenge to the appropriation of tax revenue to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs does not raise a nonjusticiable political question.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2005
• Published 08/31/2005

Judges

• BYBEE, Circuit Judge., Before MELVIN BRUNETTI, SUSAN P. GRABER, and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• H. William Burgess, Honolulu, HI, for the plaintiffs-appellants., Le'a Malia Kanehe, Native Hawaiian LegalCorp., Honolulu, HI, for the amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sherry P. Broder, Honolulu, HI;  Girard D. Lau, Charleen M. Aina, Office of the Attorney General of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI;  Jon M. Van Dyke, William S. RichardsonSchool of Law, Honolulu, HI;  Aaron P. Avila, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.;  Thomas A. Helper, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Honolulu, HI, for the defendants-appellees., Walter R. Schoettle, Honolulu, HI;  Robert Klein, Honolulu, HI;  Philip W. Miyoshi, McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon LLP, Honolulu, HI, for the intervenors-appellees.