City of Phila. v. Sikder

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• holding that the Hawai`i Planning Commission must protect the reasonable exercise of customary and traditional rights of the native Hawaiians
• holding that the Hawaii Planning Commission must protect the reasonable exercise of customary and traditional rights of the native Hawaiians
• recognizing, with respect to native Hawaiian issues, “the need to avoid foreclosing challenges to administrative determinations through restrictive applications of standing requirements”
• noting that the agency had “rendered its final views for the purposes of judicial review” (citing HRS § 205A-29)
• specifying that, “ ‘usage must be based on actual practice’ and not assumptions or conjecture”
• stating that “the reasonable exercise of ancient Hawaiian usage is entitled to protection under article XII, section 7” (emphasis in original)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).