The tax payers front all the legal cost and the hired law firms are the first to be paid from any settlement.  The losers are the people of Hawaii with higher cost of products, higher taxes and a unfriendly business environment, along with being the laughing stock of the entire nation.  Next thing you know they will be suing the federal government for attempting to stop radical terrorist from entering the country, like the ones that bombed a concert full of teenage girls in England.