Heads up to all those who will be attending the upcoming ABA annual meeting in San Francisco. Please mark your calendars for Thursday, August 5 from 5:30 – 7:00 pm at the Bingham McCutchen offices at Three Embarcadero Center for a panel discussion on Careers in State and Local Government Law, sponsored by the
More On Chief Justice-Nominee Leonard’s Opinions
Why we like law blogging: a commenter added to our recent post on Judge Katherine Leonard‘s opinions during her tenure as an Associate Judge on the Intermediate Court of Appeals.
In the 2009 Roxas case (regarding the extension of a $6 million judgment against Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos), http://www.state.hi.us/jud/opinions/ica/2009/ica28702.htm, Judge Foley wrote the
Judge Leonard’s Opinions
Update: How to Evaluate the Leonard Nomination
Yesterday, Governor Lingle appointed Intermediate Court of Appeals judge Katherine Leonard as the next Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court. The term of appointment is ten years, with the possibility of reappointment by the Judicial Selection Commission, with service until the mandatory retirement age of 70. Thus
Event: The Supreme Court And The Battle For Second Amendment Rights
Last night, I had the opportunity to attend The Supreme Court and the Battle for Second Amendment Rights, a discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court’s two recent Second Amendment opinions, District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the case in which the Court affirmed that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual
Review Of The Supreme Court’s Term 2010 – Northern District Of California Chapter, Federal Bar Association Event
Thanks to the Federal Bar Association (Northern District of California Chapter), today I had the pleasure of attending a panel discussion of the significant cases from the Supreme Court’s recently ended Term.
The panelists discussed “Guns, Free Speech, Criminal Justice, Campaign Finance, Separation of Powers … and ‘Inside Baseball’ Views of the Court
North Carolina App: When Opposing Summary Judgment, Make Sure Your Declarations State Facts, Not Conclusions (Applies In Inverse Condemnation Cases)
Here’s a case from the North Carolina Court of Appeals that is similar to last week’s decision by the Kansas Supreme Court, in that it involves an inverse condemnation claim resolved by the burdens on the parties in the course of a summary judgment motion.
The public utility decided to install a sewer line
7th Circuit: Political Chutzpah Lawsuit Not Ripe
So let’s say you want to hold fundraisers for political bigshots in your home. When the crowd you are hobnobbing with includes Bill Clinton, you might expect the Secret Service to come along, and you might expect that your local constabulary is asked to pitch in to help the T-Men with security, and traffic and
Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: Zoning Permits
In Kauai Springs struggling, The Garden Island (the Kauai daily newspaper) writes about
The Kauai Planning Commission (Planning Commission) asks this Court to validate a remarkable theory: that in the course of reviewing whether Kauai Springs, Inc. (Kauai Springs) was entitled to three simple zoning permits for its agriculturally-zoned land, the public trust doctrine
New Book: Property Rights – Eminent Domain and Regulatory Takings Re-Examined (2010)
I recently picked up a copy of Property Rights – Eminent Domain and Regulatory Takings Re-Examined (Bruce L. Benson, ed., Independent Institute 2010), available on-line here.
At 299 pages and with 13 entries, I haven’t had a chance to read the whole thing yet. But after an initial skim, a few of the chapters
Cal App: No “Substantial Issue” Meriting Appeal To Coastal Commission
In Hines v. California Coastal Commission, No. A125254 (decided June 17, 2010, ordered published July 13, 2010), the California Court of Appeal (First District) held that the California Coastal Commission properly refused to hear the appeal of a neighbor who opposed the grant of a use permit because the appeal did not present a