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Entries for 'Robert Thomas'
Saturday, March 4, 2017 |
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State Supreme Court says election board erred in not hearing challenge
By Robert Thomas @ 7:51 PM :: 4876 Views :: Office of Elections
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In Hyland v. Gonzales, No. SCWC-15-0000053 (Mar. 2, 2017), the unanimous court held that the appellant timely "brought" his appeal to the Hawaii County Board of Registration....
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court Oral Arguments: When Is Election Law Admin Appeal "Brought?"
By Robert Thomas @ 9:42 PM :: 5515 Views :: Office of Elections
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...when it is mailed by the appellant, or when received by the Board of Registration Appeals....
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Thursday, February 9, 2017 |
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UH Law Review Sharing Economy Symposium
By Robert Thomas @ 3:34 AM :: 5325 Views :: Small Business
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...the University of Hawaii Law Review is devoting one of its issues to a symposium on issues related to the sharing economy....
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017 |
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Help Wanted: Deputy Solicitor General State of Hawaii
By Robert Thomas @ 10:48 AM :: 5346 Views :: Judiciary
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The State of Hawaii Attorney General is looking for a Deputy Solicitor General....
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Friday, January 13, 2017 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court: Do County Plans Override Zoning Laws?
By Robert Thomas @ 1:55 PM :: 6934 Views :: Maui County, Land Use
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... the parcel is zoned "Hotel" but is designated on the Community Plan as "park" ....
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Saturday, December 31, 2016 |
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CNMI Government Takes House Lot from Owner, Refuses to Pay
By Robert Thomas @ 7:32 PM :: 5503 Views :: Land Use
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...the court also issued a writ of execution, ordering the local branches of the banks in which the CNMI government kept its cash to deliver "all monies and proceeds" to the property owner's lawyer....
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016 |
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9th Circuit Court Rejects Race-Based Voting in Northern Marianas Islands
By Robert Thomas @ 11:23 PM :: 6722 Views :: Akaka Bill
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...limiting voting on certain constitutional amendments to a "person who is a citizen or national of the United States and who is of at least one-quarter Northern Marianas Chamorro or Northern Marianas Carolinian blood...."
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016 |
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Beachfront Property: Hawaii Supreme Court Considers Wipeout Regulatory Taking
By Robert Thomas @ 11:19 PM :: 5709 Views :: Land Use
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...a case to watch being argued next week in the Hawaii Supreme Court....
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016 |
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HBA Land Use Conference to Focus on Telescope, TOD, and GMOs
By Robert Thomas @ 9:18 PM :: 4376 Views :: Land Use
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"Takings: Regulatory and Physical"
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Saturday, November 19, 2016 |
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Sunday, October 30, 2016 |
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Judge Posner: Cab Companies Were Chumps To Rely On Govt Monopoly to Protect Them From Competition
By Robert Thomas @ 3:37 AM :: 5237 Views :: Small Business
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...holdovers from the legacy economy -- the owners of city-issued taxi medallions and permits -- did not have their property taken when the city allowed ridesharing services to operate....
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Thursday, October 6, 2016 |
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Supreme Court Hearing Hanalei Boatyard Case Today
By Robert Thomas @ 3:48 PM :: 6817 Views :: Kauai County, Land Use
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Thursday, October 6, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. at Aliiolani Hale....
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Thursday, September 15, 2016 |
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Hawaii County Lawsuit: Can Lawyer Engineer Her Way into Office?
By Robert Thomas @ 6:08 PM :: 5126 Views :: Hawaii County
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The mayor and county council hired a lawyer who did not have an engineering degree -- only a bachelors with a major in English and a minor in Hawaiian studies, plus a JD....
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Friday, September 2, 2016 |
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Visitors At The Volcano: Is The NPS Nuts?
By Robert Thomas @ 1:57 PM :: 6138 Views :: Environment, Tourism
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... the "compensation culture" ....
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Thursday, August 25, 2016 |
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Supreme Court to hear Hanalei Boatyard Case
By Robert Thomas @ 12:29 AM :: 8182 Views :: Kauai County, Land Use, Small Business
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...the County of Kauai is condemning several Hanalei-area parcels to expand an adjacent public beach park....
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016 |
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TVR in a Ag Condo: Must Your Neighbors Approve?
By Robert Thomas @ 8:12 PM :: 4383 Views :: Tourism
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HAWICA Rejects Planning Department's Formalistic Definition Of "Applicant" In Vacation Rental Case....
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court: Hanalei Boatyard Connected to Area 51?
By Robert Thomas @ 4:20 PM :: 6795 Views :: Kauai County, Land Use
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The case involves three parcels on Kauai -- one of which is owned by a fellow who has been a thorn in the County's side....
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Friday, July 22, 2016 |
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Hawaii Reapportionment Case: Only Mark Takai Put his Name on the Line
By Robert Thomas @ 11:11 PM :: 6775 Views :: Military, Politicians
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...one of the rare people in public life who actually showed political courage to do the right thing when literally not one of his colleagues had the guts to join him....
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016 |
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Supreme Court: Mixed Decision on Office Of Election Ballot Practices
By Robert Thomas @ 7:35 AM :: 4371 Views :: Office of Elections
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...the agency should have adopted rules and because it had not, the specific practices were invalid....
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Friday, July 15, 2016 |
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Three Candidates For Mayor, Three Positions On Honolulu Rail
By Robert Thomas @ 4:49 AM :: 6449 Views :: Honolulu County, Politicians, Rail
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Continue past Middle Street to Ala Moana only if the total cost does not exceed $7,000,000,000.
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Friday, July 1, 2016 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court Clarifies Appeals Clock
By Robert Thomas @ 4:47 PM :: 6032 Views :: Higher Education, Judiciary
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...the Hawaii Supreme Court clarified a point of appellate procedure that has been unnecessarily vague -- and therefore dangerous -- for a while....
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016 |
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Hawaii Federalist Society: Supreme Court Term in Review
By Robert Thomas @ 12:58 AM :: 4560 Views :: Judiciary
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016 11:30am
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Friday, June 24, 2016 |
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Rail: Building To The Nowhere Of Middle?
By Robert Thomas @ 10:29 PM :: 4882 Views :: Rail
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...omit the most densely populated, and therefore the most useful, portion of the route....
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Saturday, June 18, 2016 |
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Rail: Caldwell’s Flip-Flop Opens Door to Lawsuits by Property Owners Targeted by HART
By Robert Thomas @ 6:55 PM :: 6815 Views :: Land Use, Rail
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...if a taking is abandoned or dismissed prior to final judgment, the condemnor is on the hook for "damages."....
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Saturday, June 18, 2016 |
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Fake Indian Tribe: OHA Legal Shell Game Copied from Southern Segregationists
By Robert Thomas @ 6:45 PM :: 6164 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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...his argument allowed careful listeners to see the analogy to Jim Crow southern governments....
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Thursday, June 16, 2016 |
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VIDEO: Ninth Circuit Oral Arguments In Hawaii Anti-GMO Cases
By Robert Thomas @ 9:47 PM :: 4189 Views :: GMOs
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Official full-length Ninth Circuit video recording of the hearings....
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Monday, June 6, 2016 |
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Unanimous SCOTUS: You Can Judicially Challenge A Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Determination
By Robert Thomas @ 3:27 PM :: 5804 Views :: Environment, Agriculture
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"...the consequences to landowners even for inadvertent violation can be crushing...."
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Saturday, June 4, 2016 |
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Telescope: Nobody can remove all fears of reversal
By Robert Thomas @ 7:39 PM :: 9089 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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...the late request by the University to remove Judge Amano ... out of a fear that retaining her might be overturned on appeal, invites the Board to subvert its own independent judgment....
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016 |
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Election Office Admits ‘Mistakes Were Made’
By Robert Thomas @ 4:47 AM :: 4800 Views :: Office of Elections
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After A Judicial Feeding Frenzy, The Hawaii Supreme Court Searches For Rules To Fix The Office Of Elections....
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Saturday, May 21, 2016 |
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Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Big Island Council Candidate’s Eligibility
By Robert Thomas @ 11:42 PM :: 6493 Views :: Judiciary, Office of Elections
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If there's one thing that makes lawyers sit bolt upright in a sweat at 3 am, it's the prospect of missing a jurisdictional deadline....
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Saturday, May 21, 2016 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court Rules on Big Cabbage Case
By Robert Thomas @ 11:20 PM :: 9788 Views :: Agriculture, Judiciary, Law Enforcement, Police
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...the unanimous Hawaii Supreme Court threw out the conviction of the farmer, tagged by Officer Fuiava of Five-O for transporting a load of cabbage uncovered....
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Sunday, May 15, 2016 |
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Telescope to Avoid "Death By A Thousand Days?"
By Robert Thomas @ 3:42 PM :: 8574 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, Judiciary, OHA
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"Why not just send it straight to the justices, if they are going to decide it eventually?”
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Friday, May 13, 2016 |
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Elections: Supreme Court to hear Green Party Suit Against Scott Nago
By Robert Thomas @ 4:08 AM :: 4653 Views :: Office of Elections
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The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at 8:45 a.m....
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016 |
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Hawaii ICA Bungles Hanalei River Eminent Domain Case?
By Robert Thomas @ 4:09 AM :: 6530 Views :: Kauai County, Land Use
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...we have an old eminent domain code and don't have a whole lot of current decisional law applying it....
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court Dismisses ‘Birther’ Challenge To Ted Cruz Eligibility
By Robert Thomas @ 3:55 AM :: 5916 Views :: Office of Elections, Republican Party
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... when it makes allegations like this, there's not going to be much doubt about the outcome, is there? ....
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Monday, April 18, 2016 |
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Guam Justice--34 Years After Mayor’s Land Grab
By Robert Thomas @ 11:02 PM :: 4356 Views :: Land Use
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Guam land titles can be seriously messed up....
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Friday, April 8, 2016 |
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Supreme Court on Koa Ridge: No Moratorium While IAL Process Underway
By Robert Thomas @ 2:59 AM :: 5030 Views :: Agriculture, Land Use
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...the "agricultural lands" section of the Hawaii Constitution isn't self-executing....
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016 |
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What Does Evenwel v. Abbott Mean For "One Person, One Vote?"
By Robert Thomas @ 7:16 PM :: 3966 Views :: Office of Elections
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Evenwel has transformed the "one-person, one-vote'" rule in reapportionment cases into more of a "one-person, one-representative" principle....
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Monday, April 4, 2016 |
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Evenwel Ruling: States May, not Must, Count Everyone In Reapportionment
By Robert Thomas @ 10:37 PM :: 4506 Views :: Office of Elections
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...Evenwel is the sleeper case of the Term, and opened the possibility that the we might finally get an answer to a question the Supreme Court has dodged for over fifty years....
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Friday, March 4, 2016 |
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Hawaii Federal Court: Get Ready For Bridge Aina Lea Trial
By Robert Thomas @ 4:43 PM :: 6714 Views :: Hawaii County , Land Use
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Bottom line: the plaintiff's takings claims are going to trial....
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Friday, February 26, 2016 |
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If judges act like politicians, shouldn't they be treated like politicians?
By Robert Thomas @ 4:26 AM :: 5013 Views :: Judiciary
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Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski "wisely admonished his fellow judges that 'When we act act like politicians, we will be treated like politicians.'"
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016 |
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Property Rights Court for Guam?
By Robert Thomas @ 10:23 AM :: 4229 Views :: Land Use
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...We've asked whether Hawaii also might need a Property Rights Court....
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Tuesday, February 9, 2016 |
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Bridge Aina Lea: Hawaii ‘Takings’ Case in Federal Court
By Robert Thomas @ 1:32 PM :: 7498 Views :: Hawaii County , Land Use
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The State removed the civil rights lawsuit to U.S. District Court in Honolulu....
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Tuesday, February 9, 2016 |
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State Looking For A TMT Hearing Officer–Deadline 430pm Today
By Robert Thomas @ 1:21 PM :: 6697 Views :: Higher Education, Land Use, OHA
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Are you a lawyer and need something to do for the next 6-12 months?
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016 |
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Time To Elect Hawaii's Judges? Maybe Not Such A Bad Idea.
By Robert Thomas @ 1:55 AM :: 4898 Views :: Judiciary
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The Hawaii Legislature is evaluating a series of bills which, taken collectively, would radically overhaul the way judges and justices are selected....
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Friday, January 15, 2016 |
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Supreme Court to Consider Nai Aupuni Contempt Today
By Robert Thomas @ 12:48 AM :: 8005 Views :: Akaka Bill, OHA
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The contempt motion is on the Court's January 15, 2016 conference calendar, so we should know the results soon after that....
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