State Ex Rel. Bronster v. Yoshina

KLEIN, Acting Chief Justice.

This appeal concerns the interpretation of article XVII, section 3 of the Hawaii Constitution, which pertains to amending the constitution. The State of Hawaii, through its attorney general, filed a complaint seeking (1) a declaratory judgment that certain proposed constitutional amendments put before the voters in 1994 had passed the legislature without proper notice to the governor, and (2) injunctions preventing certification of the election results on those amendments by Dwayne D. Yoshina, the chief election officer, and the clerks of the Senate and the House…