A couple of interesting eminent domain-related items appeared on my screen today:
My Damon Key colleagues Robert Harris and Tred Eyerly have launched the new and improved version of their law blog, Insurance Law Hawaii.
The subject of the blog is (quite naturally) Insurance Law. It focuses on coverage issues under Hawaii law, and issues and cases of interest. Categories include Bad Faith, Duty to Defend
Thanks to David Breemer at Pacific Legal Foundation for calling our attention to this recent Ninth Circuit case. In North Pacifica, LLC v. City of Pacifica, No. 05-16069 (May 13, 2008), a northern California landowner claimed the city’s delays in processing acondominium permit violated its substantive due process and equalprotection rights. The Ninth Circuit
To all who attended Wednesday’s Integrating Water Law and Land Use Planning seminar, thank you. Here are links to the cases and statutes I discussed:
Thanks to Dwight Merriam for forwarding this item, a story that an insurance underwriter is planning to offer — get this — eminent domain insurance:
For less than $300 per year, the policy provides up to $200,000loss of market value when the home is sold, plus up to $50,000 torelieve the expense of moving
There’s still time to sign up for the “Integrating Water Law and Land Use Planning in Hawaii,” to be held on May 14, 2008. I’m on the faculty, leading a session on “Water Rights, Property Rights and the Law of Settled Expectations.” More information here, including registration information. If you attend, please
Following up on this post. West Hawaii Times is reporting (free registration may be required) the County of Hawaii is one step away from putting to voters the question of whether to have two Planning Commissions. The County Council’s Planning Committee approved the measure, and the last step before it makes the ballot is
Today we filed the Opening_Brief (250kb pdf) in Maui Vacation Rental Association, Inc. v. County of Maui, No. 08-15251, the Ninth Circuit appeal from the Hawaii district court’s dismissal of MVRA‘s complaint which sought to declare Maui’s shut down of vacation rentals illegal.
I won’t go into details of the case since the