Villafane v. Connecticut

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Hawaii district court has jurisdiction over Hawaii residents claiming they are citizens of the Sovereign Kingdom of Hawaii
• noting that “if plain error analysis applies, it appears that the appellants . . . pay the price for the inadequacy of the record”
• holding the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii has jurisdiction over Hawai‘i residents claiming they are citizens of the Sovereign Kingdom of Hawaii
• rejecting defendants’ claim that they were nationals of the Sovereign Kingdom of Hawaii and therefore not subject to the jurisdiction of the district court
• rejecting claims that the litigants are members of the Kingdom of Hawaii, stating, “The appellants have presented no evidence that the Sovereign Kingdom of Hawaii is currently recognized by the federal government”
• “Lack of attentiveness is a neutral, reasonable basis for the use of a peremptory challenge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).