A Hawaii judge has denied a request from a California woman who wants to inspect President Barack Obama's original birth certificate.
The state estimates its attorneys have spent about 700 hours working on so called "birther" issues, with 90 of those hours dedicated to Dr. Orly Taitz.
Earlier this year President Barack Obama released a copy of his long form birth certificate. One skeptic believes it's a fake.
"I have provided in my paper work ample evidence that according to expert after expert after expert what Mr. Obama has posted online is a forgery. It's a clear forgery," Taitz says.
Taitz is hoping to prove that by asking to see the real thing, but the state says the Department of Health has already verified it.
"I have this record here, was Barack Hussein Obama II born in Hawaii? And the answer, the verification would be yes," said deputy attorney general Jill Nagamine.
"For the last three years there were multiple requests for Mr. Barack Obama's long form birth certificate," Taitz says.
And it has been a wide variety of folks wanting to see that document.
"Recently multi-billionaire Donald Trump raised the issue and quickly rose in polls as a leading presidential candidate for the 2012 election," Taitz says.
Taitz is the latest, asking not just Hawaii state courts, but federal courts to intervene.
"She has given no authority to this court that would provide us with any reason to believe that she is in a position of power to make a determination over the holder of the White House," Nagamine says.
Judge Rhonda Nishimura was asked by the state to dismiss the claim. It took less than an hour for the proceeding to wrap up with eight words.
"The court will grant the motion to dismiss," said Judge Nishimura.
And with that Taitz request to see the President's original birth certificate was thrown out.
But according to Taitz her request in federal court is still being considered.
