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KALIPI v. HAWAIIAN TRUST CO., LTD.

No. 6957.

656 P.2d 745 (1982)

William KALIPI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HAWAIIAN TRUST COMPANY, LTD., Pearl M. Petro, Ruth R. Searle, Ethel F. Shaner, Lorrin A. Meyer, William C. Meyer, Edmund Wond, Samuel Pedro and State of Hawaii, Department of Land and Natural Resources and its Director and Chairman of the Board Christopher Cobb, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

December 30, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Albu, Honolulu (Sandra E. Pechter, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Honolulu, with him on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Steven K.S. Chung, Honolulu (Frank D. Padgett, Honolulu, of counsel), for defendants-appellees Hawaiian Trust Company, Ltd., Ethel Shaner, Ruth Searle, Lorrin Meyer, William Meyer, Pearl Petro, Edmund Wond and Samuel Pedro.

Che Lun Huang, Deputy Atty. Gen. (Lester G.L. Wong, Deputy Atty. Gen., on the brief), for defendants-appellees State of Hawaii, Dept. of Land and Natural Resources and Christopher Cobb.

RICHARDSON, Chief Justice.

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 Plaintiff's failure to actually reside within the land divisions in which he...

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