Kalipi v. Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

RICHARDSON, CJ.

In this appeal, Plaintiff-Appellant Kalipi claims the right to enter Defendants-Appellees’ undeveloped lands to gather, without unnecessarily disturbing the surrounding environment, natural products necessary for certain traditional native Hawaiian practices. While we agree that such rights have, to a limited extent, been statutorily preserved, we conclude that Plaintiffs failure to actually reside within the land divisions in which he seeks to exercise these rights requires the affirming of the trial court’s judgment for Defendants.

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William Kalipi seeks…