This just in.
In a case we’ve followed closely, the U.S. Supreme Court has concluded that Nevada’s Ethics in Government Law is not unconstitutionally overbroad, and that a state may regulate apparent conflicts of interest in legislative voting without infringing upon an elected official’s First Amendment speech rights.
In an opinion by Justice Scalia
“Kelo, Parents and the Spatialization of Color (Blindness) in the Berman–Brown Metropolitan Heterotopia” by Denver lawprof Tom Romero II.
This article utilizes interdisciplinary methodology and resources to describe the manner by which legally enforced color lines on a local scale became paradoxically proscribed, yet essential to what I call the multi-racial
Today, Honolulu Civil Beat features our piece on Nevada Comm’n on Ethics v. Carrigan, “Do Elected Officials With a Conflict of Interest Have a Right to Vote Anyway?“
We’ve written about the case recently in the Zoning & Planning Law Reporter (Supreme Court Preview: Voting as Speech When a Government Official
My Pacific Legal Foundation colleague and eminent domain scholar Tim Sandefur has posted an analysis of the legislation proposed by California’s redevelopment agencies in reaction to Governor Brown’s call to eliminate them (“California Redevelopment Agencies fight to defend their turf“).
Sandefur deconstructs (or should we say “redevelops”) the agencies’ claim that the bill
My Damon Key colleague Rebecca A. Copeland is spearheading the formation of an Appellate Section in the Hawaii State Bar Association. Many state bars have groups devoted to issues of interest to appellate practitioners and justices/judges, and it’s about time we have one. It will allow those of us who practice in Hawaii’s appellate courts
Rest easy: this post, thankfully, is not about a certain disgraced Congressman, but is about the much more mundane (but interesting to us) issue of how “owner of a business” is defined in the California statute that allows recovery for loss of goodwill in eminent domain.
Civil Beat‘s recent story “Mayor, City Council Move Closer to Litigation on Rail” details the potential lawsuit over who gets to control the $18 million budget of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit (HART), the newly created “semi-autonomous” agency that is overseeing the $5 billion rail project. The focus of the story
“Nobody’s gonna remember how long it took. They’re only gonna look and see that it was done.”
– New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on the use of
eminent domain to build a basketball arena in Brooklyn
Earlier this year, at the annual ALI-ABA Eminent Domain law conference, filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley
Civil Beat‘s recent report on the mayor’s plan to demolish the Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial, a salt-water swimming pool erected to honor those who served in “the Great War,” not only brought back some childhood memories (I swam there as a kid) but reminded us of the cost of preservation. When the thing