On June 11th Shaka completed the filing of it’s appeal with the 9th Circuit Court (based in San Francisco) asking the court to reverse the decisions of Judge Mollway and Judge Kurren, which are improperly blocking the implementation of the voter approved moratorium. The appeal (found here) asserts that the court order prohibiting the certification of the election results, and the implementation of the ordinance approved by the Maui County voters, was made in clear error, and a serious abuse of judicial discretion.

Despite vigorous assertions by the industry opponents that the appeal was “pointless” in light of the District Court’s stated intent to hold a hearing on June 15th, and to issue rulings by the end of that month on several of the motions before it, the Court of Appeals agreed to hear the case. The date and location of the hearing, once announced, will be published here.