(AP) — The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court has overturned a disorderly conduct conviction of a Native Hawaiian activist who blocked a construction convoy heading for the summit of Maui’s Haleakala volcano to build a solar telescope. The Maui News reports the court says there wasn’t substantial evidence to support the conviction of Samuel Kaleikoa Kaeo. The court says to prove disorderly conduct, the prosecution had to show that Kaeo acted with the “intent to cause physical inconvenience or alarm by a member or members of the public.“ But the court says the evidence didn’t show inconvenience to anyone other than about 20 convoy workers.

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