State of Hawaii v. Federal Emergency Management Agency

294 F.3d 1152 STATE OF HAWAII, by and through Its ATTORNEY GENERAL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY; Joe M. Allbaugh, * Director, FEMA; Lacy E. Suiter, Executive Associate Director, Response and Recovery Directorate, FEMA; Karen Armes, Regional Director, Region IX, FEMA; ** Patricia A. English, Acting Chief Financial Officer, FEMA; *** George J. Opfer, Inspector General, FEMA, Defendants-Appellees. No. 00-15895. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted November 5, 2001. Filed June 26, 2002. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Dorothy D. Sellers, with whom Michael S. Vincent was on the briefs, Office of the Attorney General, State of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, for plaintiff-appellant. Caroline Lewis Wolverton, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii; Susan Oki Mollway, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-99-00490-SOM. Before: THOMPSON, O'SCANNLAIN and BERZON, Circuit Judges. BERZON, Circuit Judge: 1 Hurricane Iniki stormed over the Hawaiian island of Kauai a decade ago, but a dispute it left behind continues. The…