December 2015

We are on the road today, so were not going to post. But when the case title is Perfect Puppy, Inc. v. City of East Providence, No.15-1553 (Dec. 8, 2015), who could resist?  

Reading through the court of appeals’ passive-aggressive sniping at the plaintiff — a pet shop challenging the City’s ban on

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Today, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser published an op-ed by me, Col. David Brostrom (U.S. Army, retired), Rep. Mark Takai, who represents Hawaii’s First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Andrew Walden, editor and publisher of Hawaii Free Press, about the case, argued this morning in the U.S. Supreme Court about who

Who gets counted for reapportionment purposes?

Everyone!

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in two election law cases, Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940, and Harris v. Arizona Ind. Redistricting Comm’n, No. 14-232.  We’ve covered the issues presented by these cases several times, so please forgive the continuing detour from takings law

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the telescope Thirty Meter. Its five year continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out a Conservation District Use Permit from the Board of Land and Natural Resources, and navigate the treacherous waters of Hawaii administrative law. To boldly go where twelve other

A shorter one today. In Catalina Foothills Unified School Dist. No. 16 v. La Paloma Prop. Owners Ass’n, Inc. No. 1 CA-CV 14-0838 (Nov. 24, 2015), the Arizona Court of Appeals held that a statutory grant of power to school districts to take property for “buildings and grounds” also implied the power to take

One for all you civil procedure and jurisdiction wonks. The background facts are a bit detailed, so please bear with us. 

Normandy Apartments in Tulsa, Oklahoma made a series of agreements with the federal government: in return for Normandy agreeing to rent to low-income Section 8 tenants and maintain the premises, the Department of Housing