LIFE OF THE LAND v. LAND USE COM'N, ETC.

No. 6405.

623 P.2d 431 (1981)

LIFE OF THE LAND, Charles O. Carr, on behalf of himself and on behalf of Life of the Land, Charles Kauluwehi Maxwell, Sr., William Hale, Dr. Satya Sood, and Max Kincaid, Jr., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. The LAND USE COMMISSION OF the STATE OF HAWAII, Eddie Tangen, individually and in his official capacity, Shelley M. Mark, individually and in his official capacity, Sunao Kido, individually and in his official capacity, Alexander J. Napier, individually and in his official capacity, Tanji Yamamura, individually and in his official capacity, Edward K. Yanai, individually and in his official capacity, James Carras, individually and in his official capacity, Mitsuo Oura, individually and in his official capacity, Christopher Cobb, in his official capacity, and Hideto Kono, in his official capacity, and Castle & Cooke, Inc., on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

February 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin M. Matsubara, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Honolulu (Gary B.K.T. Lee, Honolulu, with him on opening brief), for defendants-appellants cross-appellees Land Use Commission et al.

Dickson C.H. Lee, Honolulu (Ton Seek Pai and Robert M. Ehrhorn, Jr., Honolulu, with him on the briefs; Okumura, Takushi, Funaki & Wee, Honolulu, of counsel), for defendant-appellant, cross-appellee Castle & Cooke, Inc.

Edward Cooper Brown, Honolulu, for plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., and OGATA, MENOR, LUM and NAKAMURA, JJ.


NAKAMURA, Justice.

Once again, we are called upon to decide procedural questions related to a judicial examination of the "comprehensive review of the classification and districting of all lands" in the State of Hawaii conducted by the Land Use Commission in 1974. In Life of the Land v. Land Use Commission, 58 Haw. 292, 568 P.2d 1189 (1977), our narrow ruling was that service of a copy of a notice of appeal was not a jurisdictional...

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