NO. 25570
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI‘I
OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS, ROWENA
AKANA, HAUNANI APOLIONA,
DANTE CARPENTER, DONALD CATALUNA, LINDA DELA CRUZ,
COLETTE MACHADO, BOYD P. MOSSMAN, OSWALD STENDER, and
JOHN WAIHE‘E, IV, in their official capacities as members of the
Board of Trustees
of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs,
PIA THOMAS ALULI, JONATHAN KAMAKAWIWO‘OLE OSORIO, CHARLES
KA‘AI‘AI, and KEOKI MAKA
KAMAKA KI‘ILI, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
vs.
HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
CORPORATION OF
HAWAI‘I (HCDCH), ROBERT J. HALL, in his capacity as Acting
Executive Director of
HCDCH, CHARLES STED, Chair,
STEPHANIE AVEIRO, FRANCIS L. JUNG, CHARLES KING, LILLIAN B.
KOLLER, BETTY LOU
LARSON, THEODORE E. LIU, TRAVIS THOMPSON,
TAIAOPO, TUIMALEIALIIFANO, Members of
the Board of Directors of
HCDCH, State of Hawai‘i, and LINDA LINGLE, in her
capacity as
Governor, State of Hawai‘i, Defendants-Appellees.
APPEAL FROM THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT
(CIV. NO.
94-4207)
ORDER DENYING
DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES' MOTION TO DISMISS
(By: Moon,
C.J., Nakayama, Acoba, and Recktenwald, JJ.;
and Circuit
Judge Chan, in place of Duffy, J., recused)
Upon consideration
of defendants-appellees' motion to effectively dismiss the appeal of
plaintiff-appellant
Jonathan Kamakawiwoole Osorio, the papers in support thereof, in
opposition thereto, and the record herein,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the motion is denied.
DATED: Honolulu,
Hawai‘i, October 27, 2009.
Mark J. Bennett,
Attorney
General, and William J.
Wynhoff, Deputy Attorney
General, for the State
defendants-appellees, on the
motion
Yuklin Aluli, Richard Naiwieha
Wurdeman, Mililani
Trask, and
Dexter K. Kaiama, for
plaintiff-appellant
Osorio,
in opposition
No. 25570 Office of Hawaiian Affairs v.
Housing and Community
Development Corporation of Hawai‘i
-- Order
Denying
Defendants-Appellees' Motion to Dismiss