STATE EX REL. BRONSTER v. YOSHINA

No. 19940.

932 P.2d 316 (1997)

84 Hawai`i 179

STATE of Hawai`i, ex rel. Margery S. BRONSTER, Attorney General of the State of Hawai`i, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dwayne D. YOSHINA, Chief Election Officer of the State of Hawai`i; Paul T. Kawaguchi, Clerk of the Senate of the State of Hawai`i; and Patricia Maushimizu, Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Hawai`i, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

January 28, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorothy Sellers and Ted Gamble Clause, Deputy Attorneys General, on the briefs, Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellant.

Jon M. Van Dyke and Robert J. Morris, on the briefs, Honolulu, for defendants-appellees Paul T. Kawaguchi and Patricia Mau-Shimizu.

James C. Paige, Deputy Attorney General, on the briefs, Honolulu, for defendant-appellee Dwight D. Yoshina.

Before KLEIN, Acting C.J., LEVINSON, NAKAYAMA and RAMIL, JJ., and LIM, Circuit Judge, in place of MOON, C.J., Recused.


KLEIN, Acting Chief Justice.

This appeal concerns the interpretation of article XVII, section 3 of the Hawai`i Constitution, which pertains to amending the constitution. The State of Hawai`i, through its attorney general, filed a complaint seeking (1) a declaratory judgment that certain proposed constitutional amendments put before the voters in 1994 had passed the legislature without proper notice to the governor, and (2) injunctions preventing certification of the...

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