Happy Birthday to us: we uploaded our first posts on this blog four years ago this day. In lawblog years, that’s quite a while.
If you can’t already tell by the over 1,100 posts during this time, we enjoy doing this. Even even though it’s a lot of work, it’s rewarding. Mostly because of
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We like creative lawyering. We really, really do. After all, we like to think of ourselves as creative lawyers. But sometimes, you wish your colleagues would keep their ardor for seeing a “taking” in every situation in check, because by raising — and losing, badly — these marginal claims, they lessen tolerance for more serious…
Barista’s note: This post, like our earlier post on Justice Recktenwald’s Supreme Court opinions, is by our Damon Key colleague Rebecca A. Copeland. For those of you who have been following the process, Rebecca is familiar: she was present at the Judiciary Committee hearings when we live-blogged the Katherine Leonard confirmation. Her last…
We all live under the threat the government may exercise eminent domain and take our property, and must live with that cloud, unless the threat becomes more concrete. Only then can we run to court to complain about it. While the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit didn’t expressly hold so, that idea…
On Wednesday, August 25, 2010, we live-blogged the Hawaii Senate Judiciary and Government Operations hearing on the appointment of Associate Justice Mark Recktenwald as the next Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court.
The hearing on the ultimately-failed appointment of ICA Judge Leonard for the CJ post lasted the better part of the day, but…
Courts have equitable powers to fashion remedies that the law may not account for, but does a state’s judicial power stretch so far as to allow it to order a property owner to sell an acre of property (at fair market value) to a neighbor who had built an encroaching structure over the property line…
It’s always a pleasure when a gifted colleague is recognized, perhaps more so when they are called to public service. Comes word that Cincinnati attorney Matt Fellerhoff has been appointed by Ohio governor Strickland to the state trial bench. Congratulations, Matt!
While we lament his loss to the private bar (Matt has an enviable record…
The Hawaii Supreme Court in an opinion authored by Chief Justice Moon and joined by Justices Nakayama and Duffy (Justices Acoba and Recktenwald concurred separately), held that an administrative appeal regarding the disinterment of Native Hawaiian burial remains discovered at the Ward Village shops site in Honolulu was moot, but that the “public interest” exception…
Yes, the government took your property. But it wasn’t an exercise of its eminent domain authority. When you don’t pay your tax bills, the government can foreclose on your property, and sell it. Which it did. Inverse condemnation complaint dismissed.
Epice Corp. v. Land Reutilization Auth. of the City of St. Louis, No. 4:07CV00206…
The “reporter-hosts” at Honolulu Civil Beat are doing a very valuable public service by putting on an event this Thursday focusing on the Hawaii State Bar Association’s role in judicial nominations. Featured speakers are Hugh Jones (current HSBA president), and Michael Lilly (former State Attorney General). It’s open to the public.
The recent unqualified rating…
