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5 Mar 2024, 3:30 am by Aila Hoss
Andrade, Belated Justice: The Failures and Promise of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 46 Am. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 11:41 am
Native Hawaiians under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act won a class-action lawsuit against the State of Hawaii for failing to promptly award home lots. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 2:57 pm by charley foster
Record on Appeal has them - including links not only to the cert petition and the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp's response, but even to the briefs filed in the ICA. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 4:11 pm by charley foster
Plaintiffs had sought declaratory and injunctive relief in the circuit court claiming that the Hawaiian Homes Commission, The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, and the State were obligated by Article XII (Hawaiian Homes Commission Act), Sections 1 and 2 of the state constitution to provide particular levels of funding to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and that the State failed in the past to provide… [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 8:24 am by charley foster
Star Advertiser[House Bill 2379] would allow the commission to decide whether to permit development of gaming operations on Hawaiian home lands. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 12:01 am by Robert Thomas (inversecondemnation.com)
Because the petition draws into question the constitutionality of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act and the constitutionality of a part of the Hawaii Admission Act, the U.S. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 2:02 pm by Record on Appeal
In Corboy, non-Native Hawaiian owners of real property/taxpayers argued that they were entitled to an exemption from real property taxes equal to the exemption granted to Hawaiian homestead leases under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (“HHCA”). [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 2:58 pm by cf
Non-native Hawaiian property owners sued in the Tax Appeal Court, arguing that, because only native Hawaiians are eligible to become homestead lessees, exemptions from property taxes granted to lessees under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act discriminate on the basis of race in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and federal civil rights laws.They asked for refunds of property taxes paid in excess of what… [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 4:30 pm by Robert Thomas (inversecondemnation.com)
The question presented here is: Whether the Hawaii courts erred in failing to recognize that petitioners have standing to seek a refund of their own taxes and that the Equal Protection Clause precludes a State or municipality from creating tax exemptions that are available only to members of a certain race Because the petition draws into question the constitutionality of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act and the constitutionality of a part of the Hawaii… [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 11:17 am by Robert Thomas (inversecondemnation.com)
No doubt the Court asked for the SG's views because the cert petition draws into question the constitutionality of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act and the constitutionality of a part of the Hawaii Admission Act. [read post]
10 Oct 2010, 5:26 pm by cf
On December 11, 2007 the Kaua`i Planning Commission approved the construction of a single-family home on a lot in Ha`ena, conditioned on an archaeological survey of the land and a subsequent approval by the SHPD. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 12:05 pm by cf
In a concurring opinion to yesterday's Hawaii Supreme Court decision finding non-native taxpayers lacked standing to challenge property tax exemptions granted to Native lessees under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, Justice Acoba disagreed with the Court's standing analysis, saying Taxpayers...allege that the denial of an exemption equal to that afforded Hawaiian homestead lessees denies them equal protection under the law. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 12:02 am by Robert Thomas (inversecondemnation.com)
The case was originally scheduled for the Court's conference on December 12, 2011, but the Court postponed consideration of the case and invited the Obama Administration to weigh in with a brief, because the petition draws into question the constitutionality of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act and the constitutionality of a part of the Hawaii Admission Act. [read post]
26 May 2022, 4:10 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Here: Current Issue: Volume 46, Number 1 (2022) PDF Front Pages Article PDF Belated Justice: The Failures and Promise of the Hawaiian Homes Commission ActTroy J.H. [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 9:50 am
Under Section 5(f) and (g) of the Admissions Act -(f) The lands granted to the State of Hawaii by subsection (b) of this section and public lands retained by the United States under subsections (c) and (d) and later conveyed to the State under subsection (e), together with the proceeds from the sale or other disposition of any such lands and the income therefrom, shall be held by said State as a public trust for the support of the public schools and other public educational institutions, for the… [read post]