Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 16, Number 10, 1 October 1999 — Rice vs. Cayetano gets launeh as information site on Internet [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Rice vs. Cayetano gets launeh as information site on Internet

Hawaiians, researchers, legal scholars, general public and the media now have a plaee to go to find out the background and status of Rice vs. Cayetano with the launeh Sept. 22 of www.NativeHawaiians.com. The site was activated exactly two weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments from the attorneys representing the State of Hawai'i, the U.S. Solicitor General as well as Harold "Freddy" Rice. The Web site has an immense informational resource base on the background of the case, background of OHA and its position, history of Native Hawaiians, lesson plans, recent news articles on the case, press kits, etc. This site also provides downloadable copies of the amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs filed at the Supreme Court. The site will be maintained as long as is necessary to provide information on the case to interested people in Hawai'i and around the globe. Web users ean also get to the site by visiting OHA's main Web site at www.OHA.org. KWO staff report