Collections – UHM School of Law Library, H-3 Litigation Archive
Repository name: The Archival Collections at the University of Hawaiʻi School of Law Library: H-3 Litigation Finding Aid
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MATERIALS
Source of records:
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
United States District Court for District of Hawaiʻi
United States Department of Transportation
Supreme Court of the United States
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
State of Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation
U.S. Department of Transportation – United States Coast Guard
Mayer, Brown & Platt Lawfirm
“Hawai’i’s Road to Ruin” by Rick Ziegler
Ē Luku Wale Ē by Piliāmoʻo, Mark Hamasaki and Kapulani Landgraf
Subjects, events, etc. covered: The H-3 Litigation collection primarily focuses on the fifteen-year-long case between Stop H-3 Association v. U.S. Department of Transportation. The recurring arguments in the proceedings focused on upholding National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Section 4(f) and Section 114, completion of multiple environmental impact statements, the constitutionality of certain legislation, separation of powers, and permitting injunctions. Areas of discussion in construction were the Haʻikū-Moanalua freeway path, makai realignment, Halekou interchange, Hoʻomaluhia Park, and Haʻikū Omega Station. Documents include government records of submission, letters, transcriptions, academic analysis of the case, miscellaneous notes and articles, and official rulings in regard to the proceedings.
Date range of records: 1972-1990, primarily between 1978-1987
Volume/extent: Two archival boxes, total of 2.66 linear feet
Restrictions, if any: N/A
Citation or location information:
Information accessible in online format via http://archives.law.hawaii.edu/home
Box 1: Folder # H3B1:1-58
Box 2: Folder # H3B2:1-6
What is missing/unavailable:
Specific materials that are not accessible online:
- http://archives.law.hawaii.edu/items/show/10915#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0
- Order (Granting Appellees’ Motion for Extension of Time to File the Appellees’ Brief) (9TH CIR)
- Excerpts of the Record (9TH CIR)
- In regard to changing Cynthia Thielen’s address in records for communications from the court; Opening Brief
Parties mentioned:
- Life of the Land
- Stop H-3 Association
- Hui Malama Aina o Ko’olau
- Moanalua Gardens Foundation
- The Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- Hawaiʻi State Department of Transportation
- Cynthia H. Thielen – Lawyer, Activist, State Rep.
- Ronald Albu – Legal Aid Society of Hawaiʻi
- Tom Pacheco – Land and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice
- Boyce R. Brown Jr. – Attorney, Stop H-3 Association
- Muriel B. Seto – Hawaii’s Thousand Friends, Cultural Sites Chair
- Samuel Pailthorpe King – U.S. District Court for Hawaiʻi, Judge
- Wayne Yamasaki – Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation, Director
- Elizabeth Dole – Attorney for Federal Defendants
- Ryokichi Higashionna – Department of Transportation of the State of Hawaiʻi, Director
- Ralph Segawa – Hawaiʻi Division Engineer, Federal Highways Administration
- Michael A. Lilly – Attorney General, State of Hawaiʻi
- Keith Y. Tanaka – Deputy Attorneys General
- Johnson Wont – Deputy Attorney General
- Randall Y. K. Young – Deputy Attorneys General
- Edward Hirata – Director of Department of Transportation of State of Hawaiʻi
- Andrew L. Lewis – Secretary of the US Department of Transportation
- Heloshi Kusumoto – Hawaiʻi Division Engineer, Federal Highways Administration
- Peter R. Steenland Jr. – Attorney, Department of Justice
- Dirk D. Snel – Attorney, Department of Justice
- Ben H. Gaddis – Attorney for Hui Malama Aina o Koʻolau
- Charles Reppun – President, Hui Malama Aina o Koʻolau
- Warren Price III – Attorney General State of Hawaiʻi
- Kathryn A. Oberly – Special Deputy Attorney General
- Regina Belt – Attorney, Land and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice
- Daniel Bent – United States Attorney District of Hawaiʻi
- Edward V.A. Kussy – Assistant Chief Counsel, Federal Highway Administration
- William B. Lazarus – Attorney Department of Justice
- Robert J. Swain – Captain, U.S. Coast Guard
- Brock Adams – Lawyer, Secretary of transportation
- William Lake – Hawai’i Division Engineer, Federal Highways Administration
- George Ariyoshi – Governor of Hawai’i