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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 stated purpose of the Akaka Bill is "to provide a process for the reorganization of the single Native Hawaiian governing entity and the reaffirmation of the special political and legal relationship between the United States and that Native Hawaiian governing entity for purposes of continuing a government-to-government relationship".
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
[4] Although the lands are commonly referred to as "ceded lands" or "public lands," some refer to them as "seized lands" or "Hawaiian national lands" or "crown lands" to highlight the illegal nature of the land transfer, acknowledge different interpretations of the legal effect of the Joint Resolution, [3] and to recognize that Native Hawaiians ...
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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 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 ...
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]