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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]
The specific roles and names of the courts are as follows: The Hawaii State Supreme Court is the state supreme court. It is the high court of the state and makes binding decisions over appeals from the lower courts upon transfer from the Intermediate Court of Appeals and cases eligible to be heard directly by the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court. It is ...
From October 8, 1840, to January 15, 1848, the court was known as the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Hawaii.. This early Supreme Court was head by the King, the Kuhina Nui, and four other chiefs elected by the representative body to serve as Judges.
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 ...
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."
The Hawaii attorney general's office must pay attorney fees for using last year's Maui wildfire tragedy to file a petition in “bad faith” that blamed a state court judge for a lack of water ...
Oct. 23—For the first time, the names of applicants to sit on the Hawaii Supreme Court will be made public when the Judicial Selection Commission considers who will replace retiring Associate ...
Robertson was the son of George Morison Robertson, [2] "a distinguished associate justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court", and Robertson "maintained family tradition as an outstanding jurist". [3] On February 9, 1888, Robertson became a second lieutenant in the Honolulu Rifles division, later becoming a captain of the Hawaiian Volunteers, First ...