Why did the court take 2 years to decide the Superferry case?
Star-Bulletin readers may be wondering why it took the Hawaii Supreme Court two years to rule on The Sierra Club, et al. vs. the Department of Transportation of the State of Hawaii, et al., aka the Superferry case. Actually, public records show there was ongoing activity throughout the appeal and, when court deadlines were extended, it was at the request of a party to the suit. A notice of appeal was first filed on July 25, 2005, and the case was assigned to the Supreme Court on Feb. 15, 2006. During those 205 days, Sierra Club filed its opening brief; Hawaii Superferry filed its answering brief (after securing a 30-day extension); and Sierra Club filed its reply brief (after securing a 10-day extension). Once assigned to the Supreme Court, the case was added to the queue of more than 200 appeals that had been previously assigned and were awaiting decision. The notice of setting the case for oral argument was issued on June 19, 2007, with an original hearing date of Aug. 15, 2007. Hawa
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