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
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
Hawaii is either 5 or 6 hours behind Eastern Time, depending on the time of year (we don’t adhere to Daylight Savings Time), so we’re a quarter-day behind the part of the country where a lot — if not most — of the important things legal, financial, and political occur. Scheduling conference calls can
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
The latest news in a fast-moving election law case, about the validity of a Hawaiians-only election to choose delegates to a constitutional convention about the issue of Hawaiian national sovereignty: this morning, Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy issued this order which temporarily puts a stop to the counting of the ballots. An extraordinary move, but one
The headline of this post is clickbait, of course, since the California Court of Appeal didn’t formally file an amicus brief in favor of the government in Property Reserve, Inc. v. Dep’t of Water Resources, No. S217738, a case now pending in the California Supreme Court. But the court’s opinion in Young’s Market Co.
In 1989, agents of the Libyan government blew up a plane of civilians, killing 170 passengers and crew. Victims’ families brought suit against the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in U.S. District Court in D.C. for damages, and after winning summary judgment, the court entered judgments totaling approximately $1.3 billion. Libya appealed to the