{"id":1859,"date":"2009-03-16T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T22:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2009-03-16T21:56:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T06:26:50","slug":"breaking-news-hawaii-supreme-court-rules-against-superferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=1859","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Hawai&#8217;i Supreme Court Rules Against Superferry, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is great news!\u00a0 The Hawai&#8217;i Supreme Court ruled that Act 2, the special legislation that retroactively exempted the Hawai&#8217;i Superferry from state environmental protection laws, was unconstitutional.\u00a0 Perhaps this will be the end of the Superferry.<\/p>\n<p>Read the decision <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.hi.us\/jud\/opinions\/sct\/2009\/29035.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>=====<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.starbulletin.com\/news\/bulletin\/41333049.html<\/p>\n<p>Honolulu Star-Bulletin<br \/>\nBreaking News<br \/>\nPOSTED: 11:12 a.m. HST, Mar 16, 2009<\/p>\n<h2>Hawaii Supreme Court rules against Superferry<\/h2>\n<p>By Star-Bulletin staff<\/p>\n<p>The state Supreme Court ruled today that the<br \/>\nstate law allowing the Hawaii Superferry to<br \/>\noperate while an environmental impact statement<br \/>\nwas conducted is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The Sierra Club had argued that Act 2, a law<br \/>\npassed by the state Legislature in special<br \/>\nsession in October 2007, is unconstitutional<br \/>\nbecause it was targeted to benefit just one<br \/>\nentity, the Hawaii Superferry. Act 2 allowed the<br \/>\nSuperferry to provide Honolulu-to-Kahului service<br \/>\nwhile the environmental study was done.<\/p>\n<p>A Superferry spokeswoman had no immediate comment<br \/>\non the court&#8217;s decision. Sierra Club officials<br \/>\npreviously said if the ruling is in their favor<br \/>\nthe Superferry would have to cease operations<br \/>\nuntil the EIS is completed, a process that could<br \/>\ntake months.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2009 starbulletin.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is great news!\u00a0 The Hawai&#8217;i Supreme Court ruled that Act 2, the special legislation that retroactively exempted the Hawai&#8217;i Superferry from state environmental protection laws, was unconstitutional.\u00a0 Perhaps this will be the end of the Superferry. Read the decision here. ===== http:\/\/www.starbulletin.com\/news\/bulletin\/41333049.html Honolulu Star-Bulletin Breaking News POSTED: 11:12 a.m. HST, Mar 16, 2009 Hawaii &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=1859\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Breaking News: Hawai&#8217;i Supreme Court Rules Against Superferry, Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}