One of the roles of any Supreme Court is to get the gov't to recognize the limits of its own power. When the gov't tries to bend the rules or refuses to follow the rules and puts the environment at risk, ideally the Supremes are supposed to step in and right that wrong. Here in Hawaii we have one of the best activist courts that is not afraid to tell any agency of the gov't when they are not doing their job. In this case telling the DLNR to follow their mandate to protect the state's natural resources rather than sell it out. In this matter the yellow tang won and the DLNR got their hand slapped and were shown to be the lazy agency that we all knew they were. The Hawaii Supreme Court is not perfect...but they try to be.