United States Ninth Circuit

The circuit court reaffirms that each Native Hawaiian, as a beneficiary of the trust created by the Hawaii Admission Act section 5(f), has an individual right to have the trust terms complied with, and therefore can sue under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 for violation of that right.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/07/2007
• Published 08/07/2007

Judges

• Before:  DAVID R. THOMPSON, MARSHA S. BERZON, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Walter R. Schoettle, Esq., Honolulu, HI, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Girard D. Lau, First Deputy Solicitor General, Honolulu, HI, for Putative Intervenor State of Hawaii.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nadine Y. Ando, McCorriston, Miho, Miller & Mukai, Lisa W. Cataldo, McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon LLP, Charleen M. Aina, DAG, AGHI-Office of the Hawaii Attorney General, Robert G. Klein, Honolulu, HI, for Defendants-Appellees.