I was fortunate enough yesterday to attend an event with Jeff Benedict, who spoke about his recently-published book Little Pink House – A True Story of Defiance and Courage (Grand Central Publishing 2009) (available from Amazon here).
Little Pink House gives the backstory to the infamous Supreme Court eminent domain decision Kelo v.
Several diverse items, for your consideration:
Attorney Paul M. Sullivan, currently a lawyer for the U.S. Navy but formerly an adjunct professor at the U. Hawaii Law School and a member of the Hawaii State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, has reviewed U.H. lawprof Jon Van Dyke’s book, Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawaii (U.H. Press
For those of you within striking range of Santa Barbara on Tuesday, April 14, Jeff Benedict, the author of Little Pink House – A True Story of Defiance and Courage (Grand Central Publishing 2009) (available from Amazon here) will be speaking at the Community Leaders Forum from 5-7pm in the Loggia Ballroom at
Sean Hao at the the Honolulu Advertiser reports “Land prices for Hawaii rail route jump $100 million since 2006,” with the lede: “Honolulu real estate prices are expected to fall over the next threeyears, but the estimated cost of acquiring land to build Honolulu’selevated commuter train is going up.” Indeed, the City’s estimate
Thanks to my fellow Damon Key land user Greg Kugle for letting me know the Federal Circuit has affirmed Palmyra Pacific Seafoods, L.L.C. v. United States, 80 Fed. Cl. 228 (Jan. 22, 2008), a case we summarized here. The Federal Circuit’s opinion is available here.
The court held that licenses to use
Dean Patty Salkin’s Law of the Land blog posts James Lawlor’s summary of the Hawaii Supreme Court’s decision in County of Hawaii v. C&J Coupe Family Ltd. P’ship, 119 Haw. 352, 198 P.3d 615 (2008), “Court Must Decide If Public Purpose Claimed for Road Was Pretextual.”
The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled a
If you are wondering why your calls to State and County offices go unanswered tomorrow, it is because it is Good Friday, a legal holiday in the State of Hawaii pursuant to Haw. Rev. Stat. § 8-1.
The day of the crucifixion was originally made a holiday in 1941 by the Territorial Legislature.
Hawaii Business magazine has published my column about how our firm is using web 2.0 tools to communicate and connect, “Connect with customers with blogs, Twitter.”
Ironically, the article is not (yet) available on-line, so here it is:
Connect with customers with blogs, Twitter
They’re easy to use and effective
Take note, small-
A new article from the ABA Journal “Where’s the Revolution” about whether post-Kelo reforms of eminent domain law have any real effect on the law. According to the summary of the article on the Geo. Mason U. law school web site:
Despite the fact that the Supreme Court’s 5-4 vote in Kelo