Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff

Justice Rehnquist, Circuit Justice.

Applicants,* the Hawaii Housing Authority, its commissioners and executive director, request that I stay or vacate an order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The present application bears only tangentially on the merits of the underlying lawsuit, in which the Court of Appeals decided that the condemnation provisions of the Hawaii Land Reform Act, Haw. Rev. Stat. §516-1 et seq. (1976 and Supp. 1982), violated the “Takings Clause” of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Mid-*1324kiff v. Tom, 702 F. 2d 788 (CA9 1983).…