High court justices hear OHA land case


The Advertiser reports that:
The Hawai'i Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday on whether the Office of Hawaiian Affairs can seek what state attorneys estimate to be hundreds of millions of dollars from the state for revenues related to lands once owned by the Hawaiian monarchy.

The issue, it says, is "How much money should the state give OHA from revenues from those lands, and whether courts or legislators should resolve that question."
The hearing is the latest development in Hawai'i's long-running legal dispute over 1.8 million acres once owned by the Hawaiian kingdom. The land was turned over to the federal government when Hawai'i was annexed in 1898, and later handed over to the state to hold in trust for the public and for Native Hawaiians.

I am not familiar with all the details of this case, but the article seems to be a pretty good, concise review of the issues, history and positions involved, at least within the context of the occupation courts.

Of course the larger issue is that the land was never ceded and Hawaii never legally annexed in the first place.

"The five-member court adjourned, as is usual, without ruling and without saying when the justices will render a decision."


Posted: Sat - July 9, 2005 at 10:15 AM    
   
 
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