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    The Case

    On June 1, 2022, 13 young people from Hawai‘i filed a constitutional climate lawsuit against their state government and the Hawai‘i Department of Transportation (HDOT).

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    Meet the plaintiffs, their legal team, experts, and the defendants in Navahine v. Hawai‘i Department of Transportation.

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    Navahine v. Hawai’i DOT hit headlines locally, nationally, and globally. Read select coverage.

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Our Children’s Trust

  • Andrea Rodgers
  • Joanna Zeigler
  • Julia Olson
  • Laura Mebert
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  • Stephanie Drake

Earthjustice

  • Isaac Moriwake
  • Kylie Wager Cruz
  • Leinā‘ala L. Ley
  • Navahine F.
  • Charlotte M.
  • ʻIlikea N.
  • Kalālapa W.
  • Kalikookalani T.
  • Kaʻōnohi P.
  • Kawena F.
  • Kū Kapu
  • Mesina D.
  • Pahonu C.
  • Rylee Brooke K.
  • Seed L.
  • Taliya N.
  • Catherine Smith, J.D.
  • Daniel Sperling, Ph.D.
  • Greg Asner, Ph.D.
  • Jeff Mikulina
  • Kealoha Fox, Ph.D.
  • Lise Van Susteren, M.D.
  • Mark Z. Jacobson, Ph.D.
  • Michael Replogle
  • Rosanna ʻAnolani Alegado, Ph.D.
  • Steve Running, Ph.D.

Legal team

As advocates, our job is to make sure children’s voices are heard in courts of law. The Navahine legal team are Andrea Rodgers, Joanna Zeigler, Julia Olson, Phil Gregory, and Laura Mebert with Our Children’s Trust and Kylie Wager Cruz and Isaac Moriwake with Earthjustice.

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EARTHJUSTICE

ISAAC MORIWAKE

Isaac has extensive experience litigating before federal and state courts and agencies on a range of issues, including water rights, Native Hawaiian rights, shoreline protection, endangered species, environmental health and disclosure, and clean energy. 

Isaac earned his JD from the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi, and BA in International Relations from Pomona College. After law school, he clerked for Justice Paula A. Nakayama of the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaiʻi.

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