Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs v. Yamasaki

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

NAKAMURA, J.

The “governmental entity established by Article XII — Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii,” 1 acting through its trustees, has instituted two actions in the Circuit Court of the First Circuit against several officers of the State and a public corporation, seeking declarations that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) is entitled to receive twenty per cent of the income derived from certain lands held in trust by the State by virtue of state legislation implementing provisions of the act of Congress admitting Hawaii into the Union, as well as…