Today, we filed the Reply Brief (also available below) in the case that asks: after Kelo, when is eminent domain pretextual?
Last month, we filed a cert petition asking the Supreme Court to review the Hawaii Supreme Court’s decision in County of Hawaii v. C&J Coupe Family Ltd. P’ship, 242 P.3d 1136
You have to like any sport that the New York Times describes as “like driving full speed through an endless loop of red lights. Luck often expires in a cloudburst of steam and scattered auto parts.” That’s how the Times described “figure 8 car racing.”
But not everyone likes figure 8 racing or
Thanks to the efforts of my Damon Key colleague Rebecca Copeland, yesterday the Hawaii State Bar Association’s Board voted to approve the formation of a new section, devoted to Appellate Law.
More details from Rebecca’s blog Record on Appeal.
I’m joining — how about you?
A cert petition has been filed by the property owners in a case we’ve been following about what the takings ripeness doctrine of Williamson County Regional Planning Comm’n v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City, 473 U.S. 172 (1985) requires.
In Downing/Salt Pond Partners v. Rhode Island, 643 F.3d 16 (1st Cir. 2011), the
Today, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser filed a Complaint asking the circuit court to order the Governor to publicly release the list of judicial nominees presented to him by the Judicial Selection Commission, now that the Hawaii Senate has consented to the Governor’s appointment of Justice McKenna. The Governor has refused the Star-Advertiser‘s multiple requests, notwithstanding
The American Bar Association’s Section of State & Local Government Law has just published a new book on eminent domain fundamentals: Eminent Domain – A Handbook of Condemnation Law (available for preorder here).
I was privileged to author two chapters (Prelitigation Process and Flooding & Erosion), and my Damon Key colleagues Mark
Last week the developer and the County of Hawaii filed their joint Brief in Opposition in C & J Coupe Family Limited Partnership v. County of Hawaii, No. 11-75 (cert. petition filed July 14, 2011), responding to the cert petition we filed earlier, that poses this Question Presented:
The Hawaii Supreme Court held that
We reviewed the docfilm Battle for Brooklyn after it made its public debut a few months ago (the filmmakers presented a rough cut preview at the annual ALI-ABA eminent domain program), and we recommended it. We even sat down for a few minutes with director Michael Galinsky for a short interview.
Battle For Brooklyn
Mark your calendars for October 20 – 23, 2011. That’s when the State Bar of California will present its 20th Anniversary Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite® (yes, it is trademarked), at the Tenaya Lodge in Fish Camp, California.
Along with U.C. Berkeley law professor Joseph Sax and Deputy California Attorney General Daniel L. Siegel
Many of the cases we cover on this blog present unusual fact patterns and cutting-edge legal claims. But they may not present an accurate view of the typical cases that cross the desk of lawyers who have chosen this line of work, as much of the work of eminent domain and property lawyers involves issues