• Akina v. State Of Hawaii

    Publication Date: 2016-08-29
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Constitutional Law | Election and Political Law
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    Date Filed: 2016-08-29
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: J. Michael Seabright, Chief Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and Consuelo M. Callahan and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert D. Popper (argued), Paul J. Orfanedes, Lauren M. Burke, and Chris Fedeli, Judicial Watch, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Michael A. Lilly, Ning Lilly & Jones, Honolulu, Hawaii; H. Christopher Coates, Law Offices of H. Christopher Coates, Charleston, South Carolina; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Kannon K. Shanmugam (argued), Ellen E. Oberwetter, Eli S. Schlam, and Masha G. Hansford, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C.; Robert G. Klein, McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon LLP, Honolulu, Hawaii; for Defendants-Appellees Robert K. Lindsey, Jr., Collette Y. Machado, Peter Apo, Haunani Apoliona, Rowena Akana, John D. Waihe'e IV, Carmen Hulu Lindsey, Dan Ahuna, Leina'ala Ahu Isa, and Kamana'opono Crabbe.

    Case Number: No. 15-17134 No. 15-17453

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 9493 KELI'I AKINA; KEALII MAKEKAU; JOSEPH KENT; YOSHIMASA SEAN MITSUI; PEDRO KANA'E GAPERO; MELISSA LEINA'ALA MONIZ, P