Last year, the American Bar Association published “Eminent Domain – A Handbook of Condemnation Law,” a one-volume deskbook with an overview of condemnation and inverse condemnation law.
I authored two chapters in the book, one on Prelitigation Process, the other on Flooding and Erosion. (My Damon Key colleagues also co-authored the
Earlier, we wrote about what Hawaii law requires when one of its U.S. Senate seats becomes vacant: the remainder of the term is eventually filled by the vote of the people, but unitl the election is held, the Governor makes a temporary appointment to fill the seat and must appoint from a list provided by
The Hawaii Supreme Court recently accepted cert in two cases worth watching. Our colleage Rebecca Copeland has summaried both and posted the relevant documents over at Record on Appeal.
A quick one from the California Court of Appeal (Third District), holding that a trial court in an eminent domain case should not have granted the condemnor’s motion in limine, but should have allowed the property owner’s appraisal expert to testify regarding comparble sales. County of Glenn v. Foley, No. C068750 (Nov. 26, 2012
Check out New York Central Lines, LLC v. State of New York, No. 2011-03494 (Dec. 19, 2012), a short opinion from the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division (Second Department) (if you didn’t know that in New York, the trial court of general jurisdiction is the “Supreme Court,” and the intermediate court of appeals
Our Damon Key colleague and fellow blogger Tred Eyerly has marked the fifth anniversary of his blog, Insurance Law Hawaii.
Doing a law blog for any length of time — as any blogger can tell you — is a second job, and Tred keeps at it with regular posts on the latest developments in
While we were perusing the Federal Circuit’s RSS feed for the latest and greatest opinions on takings law, we came across this gem, In re Marsha Fox, No. 2012-1212 (Dec. 19, 2012), a case about trademarks.
Trademarks? Why pray tell, are you wasting our time posting this case, then?
Because in Fox, the court upheld the trademark examiner’s rejection of registration of “C**K SUCKER” for a line of “rooster-shaped lollipops.” The opinion is a classic, destined for future Intellectual Property casebooks, and deals with “double entendres,””scandlous meanings,” and the various definitions of the term in dictionaries. More on the case here. We can’t wait for the cert petition.
For more, be sure to listen to the oral argument recording:
Stream the oral arguments here
Our “straight-face of the year” award collectively goes to the judges and counsel. They almost got through the entire oral argument without a guffaw. Almost (see 19:30 mark).
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Here’s the latest election law case from the Hawaii appellate courts. In Kawauchi v. David, No. CAAP-10-0000066 (Dec. 13, 2012), the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals held that the time deadlines in Haw. Rev. Stat. § 12-8 are mandatory, and that a constitutional challege to the Hawaii County Charter was not timely decided. The
If it’s hard to remember a time when the State of Hawaii was not represented in Washington, D.C. by Daniel Inouye, the state’s senior Senator who died earlier today, that’s because until today, there has never been a time since statehood that Hawaii hasn’t been represented by Inouye, first as a Congressman, and then
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Hawaii’s senior U.S. Senator, Daniel K. Inouye died today. We can’t add much to the remembrances pouring in about this war hero, trailblazer, and political icon, so we’ll just