

Appointment of hearings officer in TMT case challenged
Hawaii Tribune-Herald - When the state Supreme Court invalidated the permit for construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope in December, it ruled the granting of a land use permit by the state Board of Land and Natural Resources prior to a contested case hearing violated the due process rights of the project’s opponents. Now, the Honolulu attorney for a group that sued to stop construction of the $1.4 billion observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea claims his clients’ rights