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November 2007
Hawaii Bar Journal
Awards & Honors
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Sherry P. Broder received the Cox Human Rights Award from the Ved Nanda Center for International Law
"Sherry P. Broder received the Cox Price Human Rights Award from the Ved Nanda
Center for International Law. This award is given to recognize exceptional contributions
by an individual to the dignity and well-being of humanity through the legal
process. Broder represents Native Hawaiians in their claims for entitlements
and defends the constitutionality of their programs. She has been instrumental
and efforts to reestablish the Hawaiian language."
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October 25, 2007
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Awards & Honors
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The Cox Price Human Rights Award
Honolulu attorney Sherry P. Broder received the Cox Price Human Rights Award from the University of Denver Law School for contributing to the dignity and well-being of humanity through the legal process.
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February 1997
Honolulu magazine
Awards & Honors
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Hawaii's Top Lawyers: Personal Injury Litigation
"Sherry Broder is probably most famous for the heptachlor milk contamination case of the 1980s, and for the still ongoing case against the Ferdinand Marcos regime brought by the 10,000 Philippine victims of torture. Most of her work is smaller scale, however—auto accidents and product defects. The reason she chose personal injury litigation as her kuleana? 'I thought I could help people and be able to fight for justice.'"
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January 1, 1996
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Awards & Honors
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10 Who Made a Difference
"This Honolulu attorney has fought to help victims of the Marcos regime get their due."
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March 1993
Hawaii Bar Journal
Awards & Honors
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Sherry Broder: A First in a 92-year History
Do you view yourself as just the bar president or as the first woman bar president? "
I view it both ways: as a bar president to provide leadership, to encourage lawyers
to move ahead in a positive manner for themselves and for the community; and
as the first woman bar president, which I feel is an accomplishment, to provide
a role model. I guess that people are looking to me for leadership because I
am a first."
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October 7, 1992
Midweek Cover Story
Awards & Honors
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Sherry P. Broder: Fighting for the Underdog
"Women have made a lot of progress professionally," Broder says. "But it's hard to belive this is 1992 and I'm the first woman lawyer to be president of the Hawaii State Bar Association"
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February 1992
Hawaii Business
Awards & Honors
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Broder Ramifications
Sherry Broder is elected president of the Hawaii State Bar Association, the first woman president in the 92-year history of the HSBA. |
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February 9, 1996
Honolulu Advertiser
Wrongful Death
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Civil suit settled in the '91 wrongful death of Dana Ireland
Sherry Broder represents the family of Dana
Ireland. Dana was brutally assulted and left to die in the Puna district
of the Big Island of Hawaii. She negotiated a $500,000 settlement against
the County of Hawaii for its failure to respond to a 911 emergency
call in a timely matter. She also assisted the family in their eight-year
effort to obtain justice and a murder conviction. |
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November 30, 1998
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Defective products
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Heptachlor study will track isle students
Sherry Broder, attorney who handled the lawsuit, said the study is part of a $4 million settlement to claims made from the heptachlor exposure.
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November 1988
Honolulu magazine
Defective products
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Kids and heptachlor: What's in the future?
What Broder did with the $4 million settlement set a precedent for toxic chemical law suits and was written up in the Harvard Environmental Law Review; The money went to the Hawaii Heptachlor Research & Education Foundation, a non-profit institution set up under court supervision to conduct medical monitoring programs, focused primarily on the 80,000 Oahu children, now aged 6 to 11, who are most at risk.
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February 1987
Honolulu magazine
Defective products
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Heptachlor: the $4 million sequel
Broder has won a $ 1 million settlement from Foremost and another $3 million from Meadow Gold. The $4 million will be used for a medical monitoring program designed to discover what effects drinking contaminated milk had on Hawaii's population.
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April 19, 2007
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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U.N.: Pay Marcos' victims
A United Nations committee has said the Philippines is obligated to compensate human rights victims for the "unreasonable" delay in paying a $2 billion judgment issued in Honolulu against the estate of the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos.
"We're just ecstatic about the opinion," said Honolulu attorney Sherry Broder, one of five attorneys who have represented the human rights victims in ongoing litigation with the Marcoses and his estate for the past 21 years.
"This is another step toward collection, and it is a significant victory because justice delayed is justice denied," Broder said. |
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May 5, 2006
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Marcos victims to collect $40M, highest total to date
"'This is the first major amount of money we've been awarded,' said Sherry Broder, one of three attorneys representing the victims and their families.
'We are delighted that our clients will finally be in a position to achieve a recovery to provide some real compensation for the grave abuses they have suffered.'"
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July 13, 2004
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Judge allots $35 million to plaintiffs vs. Marcos
"Sherry Broder, one of three attorneys representing the victims, called the ruling a significant step in collecting the judgment. 'What we're trying to do is make these human rights cases meaningful, and the only way it will truly be meaningful is if the victims recover something,' she said."
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February 25, 2004
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Judge weighs fraud in Marcos lawsuit: At stake is $40 million allegedly belonging to the deceased dictator
Attorneys representing a class action of 9,539 Filipinos that successfully sued the Marcos estate for human-rights abuses are trying to recover the $40 million to start paying a $2 billion judgment awarded to the class by a Honolulu jury in 1995.
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June 21, 2003
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Judge lifts stay order in Marcos lawsuit
"We're not giving up," [Broder] said. "We will never give up."
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June 25, 2002
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Marcos banker’s testimony sought: A judge orders the financier to testify on Swiss bank accounts
"We've been trying ... to track down and recover the Swiss assets," Broder said. "We need to move ahead and recover the Marcos assets and we believe the Swiss financial institutions should not be a safe haven for torturers and tyrants around the world."
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July 18, 2000
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Marcos wealth issue raised in federal court
"[The Marcoses] assertion that they have no money or they have no access to any assets and are living on loans from friends for 14 years after Marcos was deposed and 11 years after his death is simply not credible," Broder said.
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February 25, 1999
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Marcos family agrees to pay $150 million
"This result holds a dictator accountable and finally fulfills the goal we sought in 1986 when Ferdinand Marcos fled to Honolulu from the Philippines," said Sherry Broder, a Honolulu attorney who was one of the lawyers for the victims.
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September 18, 1995
Honolulu Advertiser
Human Rights
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Deal will mean cash for Marcos victims
If the settlement is approved by the Marcos family, the 9,541 victims of torture, execution and "disappearance" under Marcos martial law from 1971 to 1986 would be the first human rights victims in history to get money by suing their oppressors, according to Honolulu attorney Sherry Broder.
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January 19, 1995
Rocky Mountain News
Human Rights
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Marcos' Estate to Pay $770 Million
Honolulu attorney Sherry Broder, who appeared for the plaintiffs, said she hopes the decision "sends a message to other dictators who abuse their victims."
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September 14, 1994
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Marcos victims trying to get $1.2 billion
Sherry P. Broder said the 10,000 victims are seeking the money before Imelda Marcos' and the Philippine government's maneuver to liquidate her assets.
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September 25, 1992
Honolulu Advertiser
Human Rights
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Marcos regime guilty on torture charges
After deliberating the equivalent of two days, the seven-man, four woman panel returned with verdicts favoring all but two of the trial's approximately 10,000 Filipino plaintiffs....Attorneys Sherry Broder of Honolulu and Robert Swift of Philadelphia, who represented the plaintiffs, hugged each other as the verdicts were read.
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August 9, 1991
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Human Rights
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Taking terror to trial
Personal-injury cases like these, she says, "are on the cutting edge of law. Now we're looking for a means for people to have justice after torture."
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August 2007
Ka Wai Ola
Native Hawaiian Rights
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Developer gives up reclassification bid for site-rich Po'ipu tract
"Sherry Broder, an attorney who represented OHA in the public hearings before the state, called the Knudsen Trust's decision to pull its petition 'a tremendous victory.'"
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February 2004
Ka Wai Ola
Native Hawaiian Rights
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DISMISSED! Arakaki suit thrown out of federal court
Federal District Judge Susan
Oki Mollway issued an order dismissing
the Arakaki v. Lingle lawsuit, which
had sought to have government
programs benefiting Native Hawaiians
declared unconstitutional. OHA attorney Sherry Broder had
argued for dismissal of the suit on
the grounds that it was based on an
essentially political question.
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January 15, 2004
Honolulu Advertiser
Native Hawaiian Rights
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Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against OHA
"Broder's motion to dismiss the case contended that recent acts of Congress shepherding Hawaiian programs have fueled a political process that the courts should not interrupt."
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January 11, 2004
Honolulu Advertiser
Native Hawaiian Rights
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Ruling due on motion to reject challenge to Hawaiian benefits
"Broder said the basis of her argument is that the treatment of Hawaiians is 'a political question, and Congress has made a determination that Native Hawaiians should be treated the same as Native Americans.'"
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September 3, 2003
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Native Hawaiian Rights
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Ruling hailed as 'victory for Hawaiians'
"Sherry Broder, lead attorney for OHA, called the ruling an 'important victory for Hawaiians and their continuing battle to preserve Hawaiian rights.'"
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March 13, 2002
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Native Hawaiian Rights
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Judge denies bid to end native Hawaiian funding
"OHA board attorney Sherry Broder said the plaintiffs' use of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Rice vs. Cayetano case does not mean they will prevail."
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February 20, 2002
Honolulu Advertiser
Native Hawaiian Rights
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Federal judge rejects suit against OHA
"Attorney Sherry Broder...said this case differed from the Rice vs. Cayetano case where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Hawaiian-only elections were unconstitutional."
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November 21, 2001
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Native Hawaiian Rights
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OHA wants control of ceded lands
"Broder said international law requires governments to take steps to protect lands for indigenous people and to resolve land claims."
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July 12, 2001
KITV4 News
Native Hawaiian Rights
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'Hawaiians-Only' Lawsuit Thrown Out
"Broder responded: 'There's no reason why Native Hawaiians shouldn't be treated the same as Navajos who have reservations and have trust funds.'"
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July 3, 2001
Honolulu Advertiser
Native Hawaiian Rights
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Barrett's standing on OHA constitutionality questioned
"Sherry Broder yesterday called bogus Patrick Barrett's claims of discrimination in the rejection of an OHA business loan he had sought."
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February 22, 2001
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Native Hawaiian Rights
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Still reeling from Rice vs. Cayetano
"'These cases really attack the fabric of the society and the history of Hawaii,' Broder said."
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January 31, 2001
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Native Hawaiian Rights
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Thousands to demonstrate for Hawaiian entitlements
A lawsuit challenging a 1978 Hawaii constitutional
amendment that supports Hawaiian homesteading, the state Office of
Hawaiian Affairs, and native access and gathering rights seeks to halt
the state from receiving and spending money for programs that exclusively
benefit Hawaiians.
Sherry Broder, attorney for the Office of Hawaiian
Affairs, said, "We are confident that we will be able to defend Hawaiian rights and entitlements."
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February 14, 2004
Honolulu Advertiser
Community Activity
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Rusti will stay at Honolulu Zoo
Orangutan foundation attorney Sherry Broder said that as Rusti's lawyer, she's confident he'll be happy in his new home. "I think he's getting a wonderful deal," she said.
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February 14, 2004
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Community Activity
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Orangutan’s home will remain at the zoo
"Under a written agreement between the city and the foundation, the foundation will continue to pay for Rusti's food (about $250 worth of fruits and vegetables a month), a designated keeper and the full cost of the new enclosure, said Sherry Broder, attorney for the foundation. The zoo's staff veterinarian will provide services, as needed, at the city's expense, she said."
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