U. Hawaii Law School alums – comes this devastating news from Dean Avi Soifer:
Dear Members of the William S. Richardson School of Law Community;
I have the awful task of informing you that Professor Jon Van Dyke passed away earlier today while at a conference in Australia.
I am personally so very sorry to…
The EPA has filed its merits brief in Sackett v. EPA, No. 10-1062, the case in which Idaho property owners are asserting their right to challenge the agency’s assertion via a “compliance order” that a portion of their land are “wetlands” and that they violated the Clean Water Act.
The EPA’s brief asserts that…
Object on other grounds: the brief is filed too late, it raises waived issues, the brief does not conform to the rules, the cover sheet is the wrong color. Whatever.
But please, do not object on the basis that “amicus curiae” means “friend of the court,” and the filer is really a friend of the…
Update: The Court has invited the Solicitor General to provide the views of the federal government, so we’re still on hold.
At its December 9, 2011 conference, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to review Corboy v. Louie, No. 11-336 (cert. petition filed Sep. 15, 2011). That’s the case seeking review of…
The Star-Advertiser reports this breaking story — Governor makes names of court nominees public:
Following a court order prompted by a Honolulu Star-Advertiser lawsuit, Gov. Neil Abercrombie released the names of nominees to the Hawaii Supreme Court and two Circuit Court judgeships.
Attorney General David Louie said the governor still disagrees with the court…
Last week, we filed the ABA’s amicus brief in Filarksy v. Delia, No. 10-1018 (cert. granted Sep. 27, 2011), the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether a private lawyer hired by a local government is entitled to claim the same immunities from section 1983 lawsuits as his government-employed counterparts. Our…
Although the focus of this blog is land use and related topics, our practice involves more than that — we also take appeals in other areas of law presenting unsettled or untested questions. Here’s the latest example, a case that asks what standards govern the Family Court’s evaluation of an application for a civil TRO…
This is a post for those who decided they wanted to visit a law blog today instead of (a) filling their bellies with the usual Thanksgiving fare; (b) watching football on TV; (c) gearing up for the insanity of the day-after shopping; or (d) pretty much anything else.
Seriously, what are you doing reading a…
As reported yesterday by the NY Times :
Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chief executive of the American International Group, sued the United States Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Monday, contending that their takeover of the insurer in the fall of 2008 was improper and that the Fed…
Today on behalf of the American Bar Association, we filed this amicus brief in Filarsky v. Delia, No. 10-1018 (cert. granted Sep. 27, 2011).
The issue in the case involves the immunities that lawyers may be entitled to claim in civil rights actions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. It’s not a land use case…
