Maeda v. Amemiya

Plaintiffs, Alvin H. Maeda, Edward Lee and Clark S. Toguchi, filed an action for declaratory judgment in circuit court against Ronald Amemiya, Attorney General of the State of Hawaii, and Christopher Cobb, Director of the State Department of Land and Natural Resources (appellees), seeking to declare Hawaii Revised Statutes § 188-45 (1974) unconstitutional as violative of the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment of the United States Constitution, and sections 2 and 4, article I of the Hawaii State Constitution. Castle & Cooke, Inc., dba Hawaiian Tuna Packers, a Hawaii…