08-21-2019, 04:06 AM
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/08/2...0442bf5633
"Sixty years to the day after Hawaii became a state, attorneys for about 2,700 Native Hawaiians will appear before the state’s highest court today to argue that the government has failed in its duty to award homestead lots to Hawaiians"
"The state is appealing a 2009 Circuit Court ruling that found the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, overseer of a 203,000-acre federally created land trust, had breached its fiduciary duty by not awarding homestead lots on a timely basis to waiting beneficiaries. The state also was found liable for damages, a tab that potentially could reach tens of millions of dollars.
Not a dime has been paid thus far."