There’s still time for you to attend one (or more) of the screenings in our upcoming law film series. In conjunction with the Doris Duke Theatre at the Honolulu Museum of Art, we’re screening five films about lawyers and the law:
Here’s the latest inverse condemnation opinion from the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a case involving overflights from an adjacent airport. The case arose when property owners asserted that an extension of the runway by 1500 feet was a taking. The trial court dismissed the property owners’ inverse condemnation claims, but the court of appeal reversed
The Cato Institute, the National Federation of Independent Business, the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, and the Reason Foundation have filed an amicus brief in Horne v. United States, No. 12-123 (cert. petition filed July 25, 2012).
This is the case in which the petitioners argue that they are entitled to raise the Takings Clause
Check this out. A report from the Maui News that “Environmental court would be perfect fit here – judge.” Apparently, there is an effort to get the Judiciary or the Legislature to form another court with specialized jurisdiction, either formally like the Family Courts, or more likely on a less formalized basis like
An interesting new complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Hawaii, asserting claims for substantive due process, violation of the zoning enabling act, and the Kauai County Charter.
A owner of property that has been designated for resort development for 35 years is asserting that the adoption by the County’s voters of a charter amendment
Here’s the federal government’s merits brief in Arkansas Game & Fish Comm’n v. United States, No. 11-597 (cert. granted Apr. 2, 2012), the case in which the Federal Circuit held that flooding caused by the Corps of Engineers was only temporary, and did not result in a compensable taking merely because it eventually stopped
In a short opinion in Sierra Club v. Castle & Cooke Homes Hawaii, Inc., No. CAAP-11-0000625 (Aug. 24, 2012), the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals held that the Hawaii Senate’s failure to confirm a sitting Land Use Commissioner for a second term did not disqualify him under Haw. Rev. Stat. § 26-34(a):
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This just in: as we predicted after oral arguments (see HAWSCT Oral Argument Recap – Who Defines The “Project” For Archaeological Review? and The Real “Descendants” Plays Out In The Hawaii Supreme Court – Honolulu’s $4+ Billion Rail Project In Grave Danger), in a unanimous opinion, Hawaii Supreme Court has slapped down the
According to the Washington Post, a Texas county judge has concluded that TransCanada is a common carrier, and therefore may exercise eminent domain to take property for its Keystone XL pipeline.
In an unusual twist (but one which we fully expect to see more of as smartphones become ubiquitous), the court apparently informed the
According to a recent poll, 2/3 of Americans could not name a single Supreme Court justice. This news was predictably met with calls for remedial civics lessons … The horror!
But we say: so what if your average citizen can’t identify Justice Kagan, or Justice Kennedy, or the Chief Justice.
Isn’t that why you