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The legal status of Hawaii is an evolving legal matter as it pertains to United States law. [citation needed] The US Federal law was amended in 1993 with the Apology Resolution which "acknowledges that the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii occurred with the active participation of agents and citizens of the United States and further acknowledges that the Native Hawaiian people never directly ...
The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009 S1011/HR2314 was a bill before the 111th Congress.It is commonly known as the Akaka Bill after Senator Daniel Akaka of Hawaii, who proposed various forms of this bill after 2000.
Hawai`i Legal Research: Legislative History; Digital Public Library of America. Assorted materials related to Hawaii State Legislature "Guide to Law Online: U.S. Hawaii: Legislative", guides.loc.gov, Washington DC: Library of Congress
The last hurdle for the 2022 landmark $328 million settlement in the Hawaiian homesteads class-action lawsuit has been cleared, and the settlement funds can now be transferred to the 2, 515 ...
The Admission Act, formally An Act to Provide for the Admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union (Pub. L. 86–3, 73 Stat. 4, enacted March 18, 1959) is a statute enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower which dissolved the Territory of Hawaii and established the State of Hawaii as the 50th state to be admitted into the Union. [1]
For one thing, Rice contended that the legal status of an eligible voter is contingent solely upon race, and that Hawaii's contention that such status is a political designation, rather than a racial one, is an obvious effort to circumvent the Constitution with semantics. The Court of Appeals agreed that it might indeed be the case that the ...
The Center for Reproductive Rights, a global reproductive rights organization, teamed up with the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp. and Perkins Coie LLC, a Los Angeles-based law firm, to sue the state ...
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