VOLUNTARY ASS'N OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS v. WAIHEE

No. 91-00712 ACK.

800 F.Supp. 882 (1992)

VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS, CHURCHES, AND ORGANIZATIONS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Governor John WAIHEE, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Hawaii.

July 10, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Bybee, Bybee Chang & Rulon, Lloyd James Hochberg, Jr., Donald A. Beck, Robert R. Taylor, Beck & Taylor, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiffs.

Warren Price, III, Atty. Gen., State Atty. Gen., Steven S. Michaels, Girard D. Lau, Atty. Gen., State of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendants.

Carl M. Varady, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii Foundation, Karen 1 Sloat, The Christian Legal Society of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, Christian Legal Society, Annandale, Va., Steven T. McFarland, Christian Legal Society's Center for Law & Religious Freedom, Redmond, Wash., Frederick W. Claybrook, Jr., Shawn N. Sullivan, Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae.


ORDER DISMISSING THE CASE AS NOT RIPE

KAY, Chief Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

The Hawaii state legislature has declared that sexual orientation discrimination in employment is against public policy. See, HRS § 368-1. In furtherance of that policy, the legislature amended HRS § 378-2 to include "sexual orientation" as a class protected from discriminatory employment practices. Plaintiffs bring this action seeking to have the 1991 amendment...

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