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The Hawaii State Supreme Court has original jurisdiction to answer questions of law that have been passed to it from trial courts or the federal court, hear civil cases submitted to the Supreme Court on agreed statements of facts, and decide questions coming from proceedings of writs of mandamus, prohibition, and habeas corpus. [3]
Oct. 27—The Hawaii Supreme Court expedited its schedule and dismissed Thursday the remaining outstanding legal challenge in the Kalima litigation by a class member found ineligible to receive ...
State of Hawai'i v. Christopher L. Wilson is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. [1]It concluded that "there is no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public" and that "as the world turns, it makes no sense for contemporary society to pledge allegiance to the founding era’s culture, realities, laws, and understanding of the [American] Constitution."
Burdick v. Takushi, 504 U.S. 428 (1992), was a Supreme Court case in which the court held that various Hawaiian laws which worked to effectively prohibit write-in voting were not in violation of the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment. The court reasoned that under Hawaii's election laws, it was relatively easy to sign up and be ...
The Hawaii Supreme Court filed an opinion Thursday that found the Schweitzer brothers, whose convictions were overturned by the Circuit Court in the infamous 1991 murder and rape of Dana Ireland ...
Attorneys representing Maui wildfire victims want the Hawaii Supreme Court to weigh in on a recent lower state court ruling in an effort to finalize a proposed $4 billion settlement. The attorneys ...
Sunoco v. Honolulu & Shell v.Honolulu (Docket 23-947 & 23-952) is a case pending certiorari before the Supreme Court of the United States. [1] It is a tort law case related to whether federal law prohibits state-law claims for compensation for the effects that Greenhouse-gas emissions has on global climate.
Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229 (1984), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a state could use eminent domain to take land that was overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of private landowners and redistribute it to the wider population of private residents.