Entries for 'Robert Thomas'

Looks like they're at it again, a solution in search of a problem....

The Hawaii Supreme Court has been on a roll lately....

On Tuesday, February 18, 2014, Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie named Judge Michael D. Wilson as his nomination for associate justice to the Supreme Court....

...the panel held that the FTA and the City did not go wrong when it did not adopt the "Managed Lanes Alternative" or the "bus rapid transit" alternative....

The value of Pilaa beach, bay and reef includes use value, option value, commodity value, existence value, bequest value, cultural values, including value to indigenous people, and intrinsic value....

You file a crap brief with an appellate court. Shame on you....

Today, the Hawaii Supreme Court issued an option in Diamond v. Dobbin....

HAWSCT: Triggers To Administrative Appeals Must Be Clear And Noticed....

...the Court's order ends the case....

If there's one thing that keeps appellate lawyers up at night, it's jurisdictional questions....

On Friday, several seed companies filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Honolulu. Here's the Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief....

some of the lectures are open to the public....

Here are links to some of the materials mentioned at our session today on the GMO issue....

“Nothing to see here folks, move along” is the State’s central theme in its response to this appeal....

The court concluded that the commissioner did not qualify as a valid holdover ....

This decision also reflects that the Recktenwald Court is continuing the Moon Court's policies of keeping the door to the courthouse doors opened as wide as possible....

Under the majority's interpretation, a "deemed denial" is not ripe for appeal until the court affirmatively issues an order disposing of the post-judgment motion....

The Hawaii Supreme Court has issued its latest opinion in the apparently eternal metaphysical question of the circuit courts' appellate jurisdiction to review decisions under the Hawaii Administrative Procedures Act....

The State has hired some very big gun Supreme Court litigators at who knows what cost....

On January 8 and 9, 2014, the Seminar Group is putting on what we hope will become a regular event - the Hawaii Agriculture Conference....

Usually, in disputes about who owns oceanfront property (in Waikiki, the really nice part of Waikiki, down on the Diamond Head side), each party claims ownership....

...arguing a case in the Hawaii Supreme Court about automatic approval statutes and zoning law....

Although it dismissed the lawsuit -- the Party raised only a facial claim -- the court left open the possibility of an as-applied challenge....

...after the Council adopts a resolution to take property, the city administration must within 90 days start the condemnation action....

Plaintiffs attorneys presented their Jurisdictional Statement, arguing that there are substantial questions meriting the U.S. Supreme Court's full consideration in our appeal of a three-judge U.S. District Court decision upholding the Plan....

Here's the Response to Application for Writ of Certiorari by the State of Hawaii, which opposes the State's cert app....

...this lawsuit, while not exactly popular, is part of a long-term gambit to take the Party -- and Hawaii....

The rub is that here, it is the State of Hawaii that is claiming the interest, the right to mineral and metallic mines (including geothermal rights) on several large parcels....

Using the power of the state to equalize political outcomes, in a district where most citizens think one way, is a dangerous idea....

... I'd like to hail my fellow law bloggers who, like me, make the time to share thoughts about the legal issues of the day ....

it looks like at least two of the three judges are very skeptical whether there was an appeal able final order in the case....

In state reapportionment cases such as this, the Court has "appellate" jurisdiction to directly review decisions by the US District Court for the District of Hawaii....

Here's the latest on the federal court action....

The court concluded that the Charter amendment adopted by the voters was, in reality, a prohibited zoning initiative....

We always believed that the issues in this case merited resolution by the U.S. Supreme Court....

Here are the Complaint and the Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and Preliminary Injunction, filed yesterday....

What's the difference, if any, between a "cemetery" and a burial....

the State of Hawaii's attempted land grab would have undermined the sanctity of all Land Court titles....

Will LA vs Lavan have a direct impact on Honolulu's "stored property" ordinance?

...Bob Fletcher, who saved farms of interned Japanese Americans, dies at 101....