In a brief order available here, the Hawaii Supreme Court has rejected an application for writ of certiorari, declining to review the Intermediate Court of Appeals’ decision in Pono v. Molokai Ranch, Ltd., 119 Haw. 163, 194 P.3d 1126 (2008).
In that opinion, the ICA held that private citizens do not have standing to enforce the state land use laws. The ICA’s opinion was summarized on Professor Patty Salkin’s Law of the Land blog by James D. Lawlor, Esq., Editor and Publisher of the Land Use Legal Report, here.
Disclosure: we represented Molokai Ranch and filed a brief in opposition to the application for writ of certiorari, posted here.