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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.
Pages in category "Justices of the Supreme Court of Hawaii" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 Hawaii Supreme Court, in its ruling Thursday, said thousands of Native Hawaiians have waited to lease land pledged to them under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, but Hawaii, both as ...
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 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 also responsible for court rules, licensing and disciplining ...
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 ...
Burdick v. Takushi, 504 U.S. 428 (1992), was a Supreme Court case in which the court held that various Hawaiian laws which worked to effectively prohibit write-in voting were not in violation of the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment. The court reasoned that under Hawaii's election laws, it was relatively easy to sign up and be ...