HONOLULU (CN) — Twenty years after first filing suit, a class of roughly 100,000 Hawaii public retirees returned Monday to the Hawaii Supreme Court, asking for the third time whether the government broke a promise embedded in the state constitution.
The oral argument in Dannenberg v. State of Hawaii unfolded inside downtown Honolulu’s Aliʻiōlani Hale before an unusual bench. Three sitting justices had recused themselves, leaving Associate Justice Lisa Ginoza to preside alongside four circuit court judges temporarily assigned to hear the case.
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