CONSERVATION DIST. USE APPLICATION HA-3568

SCOT-17-0000777, SCOT-17-0000811, & SCOT-17-0000812.

431 P.3d 752 (2018)

In the MATTER OF Contested Case Hearing Re CONSERVATION DISTRICT USE APPLICATION (CDUA) HA-3568 for the Thirty Meter Telescope at the Mauna Kea Science Reserve, Ka`ohe Mauka, Hāmākua, Hawai`i, TMK (3)404015:009.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

AS AMENDED November 5, 2018.

AS AMENDED 10:45 AM AND 3:48 PM ON November 30, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Naiwieha Wurdeman for appellants, Mauna Kea Anaina Hou, Kealoha Pisciotta, Clarence Kukauakahi Ching, Flores-Case `Ohana, Deborah J. Ward, Paul K. Neves, and Kahea: The Hawaiian Environmental Alliance.

Gary Z. Zamber for intervenor-appellants, Temple of Lono, Mehana Kihoi, Joseph Kuali`i Camara, Leina`ala Sleightholm, Kalikolehua Kanaele, Tiffnie Kakalia, Brannon Kamahana Kealoha, Cindy Freitas, and William Freitas.

Intervenor-appellant, Harry Fergerstrom, pro se, on the briefs.

Clyde J. Wadsworth ( William J. Wynhoff , Kimberly Tsumoto Guidry , Julie China , and Kaliko`onalani D. Fernandes with him on the briefs), for appellees State of Hawai`i, Board of Land and Natural Resources, and Chairperson Suzanne D. Case.

John P. Manaut , Ian L. Sandison , Joyce W.Y. Tam-Sugiyama and Lindsay N. McAneeley for appellee, University of Hawai`i at Hilo.

Ross T. Shinyama and J. Douglas Ing ( Brian A. Kang and Summer H. Kaiawe with them on the briefs) for intervenor-appellee, TMT International Observatory LLC.

Lincoln S.T. Ashida and Newton J. Chu ( Vaughn G.T. Cook with them on the briefs) for intervenor-appellee, Perpetuating Unique Educational Opportunities, Inc.

RECKTENWALD, C.J., McKENNA, J., and CIRCUIT JUDGE CASTAGNETTI IN PLACE OF NAKAYAMA, J., RECUSED, WITH POLLACK, J., CONCURRING IN PART, WITH WHOM WILSON, J., JOINS AS TO PARTS I-III, AND WILSON, J., DISSENTING.


I. Introduction

These appeals were filed from a September 27, 2017 decision of the Board of Land and Natural Resources ("BLNR") authorizing issuance of a Conservation District Use Permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope ("TMT") near the summit...

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