Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 25, Number 8, 1 ʻAukake 2008 — Burgess lawsuit [ARTICLE]

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Burgess lawsuit

On Iuly 1, U.S. District Iudge Miehael Seabright dismissed the latest lawsuit brought against the Office of Hawaiian Affairs by attorney H. William Burgess, saying that it makes the same claims as one rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006. The lawsuit, filed by Burgess in April on behalf of six nonHawaiians, sought to prevent

OHA from lobbying in support of the Akaka Bill and to halt state funding for the organization founded by the 1978 Hawai'i Constitutional Convention. Burgess challenged OHA as being racially discrhninatory. The lawsuit is the latest in a long string of legal ehallenges brought by Burgess.