Earlier today, I spoke to the Hawaii State Bar Association in a session sponsored and produced by the HSBA’s Appellate Section (the best section in the HSBA, by the way), titled “The Top Ten Appellate Traps (And How To Avoid Them).”
My Damon Key colleague Chris Leong (also an appellate guy) moderated a following panel discussion with Chief Justice Recktenwald (HAWSCT), Chief Judge Nakamura (Intermediate Court of Appeals), and Clyde Wadsworth (Hawaii Solicitor General) on insider’s appellate tips and do’s and don’ts from the bench and lectern.
Here are the materials and the cases which I mentioned during my session:
- Jenkins v. Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright, 869 P.2d 1334 (Haw. 1994) (appealability of judgments)
- Bailey v. Duvauchelle, 353 P.3d 1024 (Haw. 2015) (The Hawaii Supreme Court again clarifies when a judgment is “final” (and they are really serious about this finality thing)).
- Waikiki v. Hoomaka Vill. Association of Apt. Owners, No. SCWC-16-000011 (Haw. June 30, 2017) (per curiam) (Hawaii Supreme Court allows a practical fix to a technical appeal problem with a non-final judgment)
- Wiesenberg v. University of Hawaii, 378 P.3d 926 (Haw. 2016) (a primer on post-judgment orders and timing, for things like attorneys’ fee requests).
- Joshua v. State, SCWC-16-0000800 (Haw. Oct. 16, 2017) (a follow up to the Waikiki case, also recognizing a practical fix to technical form problems).
The HSBA Appellate Section puts on a slate of CLE programming during the year, with some of the more interesting subjects. For example, Hawaii AG Douglas Chin also spoke at our session on the on going “travel ban” litigation and the appellate procedural issues which the case raised. You really should join us if you can one of these days.