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A federal appeals court on Friday issued an order granting Gov. David Ige’s request to allow the transition of three state-owned Maui hospitals to private control under Kaiser Permanente to continue as the state works to settle a lawsuit filed by the United Public Workers union.
The order from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes two days after Ige and the union submitted a report saying the two sides “are presently engaged in productive discussions regarding a possible settlement of…