Next Monday, January 13, 2014, from noon to 1:00 p.m., I’ll be speaking — along with my Damon Key partner Greg Kugle — to the Hawaii State Bar’s Appellate Law Section about administrative appeals, in a session entitled “Administrative Appeals: How Do You Get There And How Do You Get Out Of There?”
Go Back To Law School: U. Hawaii’s “J-Term” Classes Open To The Public
For those who just can’t get enough of law school, here’s your chance to return. Each January, the University of Hawaii Law School holds its “J-Term” during which brings in legal scholars from across the nation (bet it’s not too hard to convince a few lawprofs to spend mid-January in Honolulu) to teach on
Links From Today’s Session On GMO Issues
Here are links to some of the materials mentioned at our session today on the GMO issue at the Hawaii Agriculture Law Conference:
- The Kauai ordinance, Bill 2491.
- The Kauai Mayor’s veto message, which included the privilege-waived memorandum of law detailing the legal problems with the measure.
- The County of Hawaii’s Big
Brief: State Court’s Rewriting Of Property Law A Judicial Taking
Here’s the second of two amicus briefs filed in support of the petitioner in the judicial takings case we mentioned last week. This brief, filed by beverage distributors, who although they are respondents, urged the Supreme Court to take the case.
The brief argues that “Connecticut reached backwards in time to target and sweep
Cal App Doesn’t Save The Plastic Bag
We’ve been following the (mostly fruitless) efforts of a group called the “Save the Plastic Bag Coalition,” an association of plastic bag manufacturers and distributors, to push back against the growing tide of municipalities that have banned or otherwise highly regulated the use of bags at grocery stores and elsewhere. Despite one success
Amici Brief In Judicial Takings Case
Here’s the first of two amicus briefs filed in support of the petitioner in the judicial takings case we mentioned last week.
This brief, filed by the New England Legal Foundation, the Cato Institute, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, and the Southeastern Legal Foundation, urges the Court to take the case, arguing that
New Cert Petition: State Court Altering Bottle Refund Rights A Judicial Taking
Here’s the latest foray into the judicial takings arena. In this cert petition, a beverage distributor asserts that the Connecticut Supreme Court’s decision altering established property rights in unclaimed refund values in bottles resulted in a taking.
Here are the Questions Presented:
For nearly 30 years, Connecticut beverage distributors had established property rights in socalled