February 2013

(We’re not sure who captured and posted the above video — wasn’t us — but to whomever did so, thank you.)

Earlier this week, our colleague Mark M. Murakami spoke at the University of Hawaii Law School on a panel about “The PLDC and Property Rights in Hawaii.” PLDC refers to the Public

A quick one. An op-ed from yesterday’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser by the newly-appointed Director of Honolulu’s Department of Planning and Permitting. In “City followed law in issuing Hao Street development permit,” he makes some good points in this piece about building permits for two single-family homes in east Honolulu, points we don’t usually see

This just in. The Federal Circuit has issued an opinion in Casitas Municipal Water District v. United States, No. 2012-5033 (Feb. 27, 2013), a case we’ve been following for a while.

The court affirmed the CFC’s dismissal of the case on ripeness grounds:

Casitas Municipal Water District (“Casitas”) operates the Ventura River Project (the

Here the first briefs filed in which the parties attempt tofigure out what the Supreme Court meant inArkansas Game and Fish Comm’n v. United States, No. 11-597 (Dec. 4, 2012)

Once the Supreme Court rejected that per se rule of no liability, the Court of Federal Claims in Big Oak Farms, Inc. v.

Here are the links to the materials and briefs from the Supreme Court’s three taking cases which we are discussing at today’s teleconference sponsored by the ABA’s Section on Litigation’s Environmental Litigation Commitee and the Condemnation, Zoning, and Land Use Committee. 

Post-telecon note: thanks to everyone for joining us. I will be posting up the

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013, the Judiciary and Labor Committee of the Hawaii State Senate will be conducting a public hearing and taking testimony on S.B. 286, a measure which amends a state statute to define “permanent resident” as used in state reapportionment and redistricting as “any person counted as a usual resident of

Did we say free? (If you are an ABA member, that is.)

Join us for a teleconference jointly sponsored by the ABA’s Section on Litigation’s Environmental Litigation Commitee and the Condemnation, Zoning, and Land Use Committee to discuss the latest and greatest in takings law, specifically the three cases the U.S. Supreme Court is ruling

DK_greenbag_1Here’s the latest in an issue we’ve been following, just because if the plastic bag ban hasn’t reached your jurisdiction yet, it certainly will (it has been adopted across Hawaii’s counties except for the City and County of Honolulu, for example).So it’s worthwhile to keep up with developments.

In Schmeer v. County of Los

Having recently attended the 7th International Conference of the Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights in Portland, Oregon, we offer this irreverent view of that city’s culture, “Insufferable Portland,” by Mark Hemingway at the Weekly Standard. The landscape he portrays should be familiar to anyone who knows Portland, Berkeley, the

Update January 20, 2015: here are links to the most recent reports and the cert-stage briefs in the second go-round for the case: Horne II “The World’s Most Outdated Law” Crahses Headlong Into Takings

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It’s not really the “Sun-Maid Girl,” but rather the organization the trademark now represents, Sun-Maid Growers of