KAAHUMANU v. COUNTY OF MAUI

No. 02-15189.

315 F.3d 1215 (2003)

Laki KAAHUMANU; The Harvest Chapel Church of God; Sandra Barker; Double S Inc., dba A Romantic Maui Wedding, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. COUNTY OF MAUI; J. Kalani English, Chair of Maui County Land Use Committee and Maui County Council Member; Patrick Kawano, Chair of Maui County Council; Dain Kane; Michael A. Davis; John Wayne Enriques; G. Riki Hokama; Dennis Nakamura; Wayne Nishiki; Charmaine Tavares, Maui County Council Members, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 14, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Fosbinder and Rhonda M. Fosbinder, Fosbinder & Fosbinder, Kahului, HI, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Victoria J. Takayesu, Deputy Corporation Counsel, Wailuku, Maui, HI, for the defendants-appellants.

Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, ALARCÓN and FISHER, Circuit Judges.


FISHER, Circuit Judge.

This case arises from the Maui County Council's denial of a conditional use permit that would have allowed plaintiffs-appellees ("plaintiffs") to conduct a commercial wedding business on beach-front residential property. Plaintiffs brought suit under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc, against Maui County and members of the Maui County Council in their...

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