Here are the written materials from today’s HSBA Appellate Section presentation on administrative law and appeals in Hawaii courts.
A video of the presentation is posted above — it may be a bit dark, but no matter: all you really need is the sound, anyway. Listen to the audio-only session here:
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?”
…or at least an appeal from a contested case.
The Hawaii Supreme Court has issued its latest opinion in the apparently eternal metaphysical question of the circuit courts’ appellate jurisdiction to review decisions under the Hawaii Administrative Procedures Act, Haw. Rev. Stat. § 91-14 of state and county agencies acting in their quasi-judicial capacities.
As
In a 2-1 decision (en banc next?) in a case we’ve been following with some interest in which a Marin County oyster farming operation in the National Seashore sued the Interior Department for its decision to not renew the farm’s permit, in this opinion, a Ninth Circuit panel held that courts have jurisdiction
Update: More here from the Star-Advertiser.
Courts, as “temples of justice” can be intimidating places, especially for the advocates who appear there. And when you make it a federal court, the level goes up. And when you are in a storied courthouse such as the Ninth Circuit’s headquarters in San Francisco surrounded by
This is a long one from the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District (58 pages, with an 11-page dissent), so we’re not going to go into detail. But if a local government’s conflict with an all-powerful state agency, shoreline and coastal law, or how the concept of governmental “pretext” is treated in areas outside of
The Supreme Court has denied cert in Estate of Hage v. United States, No. 12-918 (cert. petition filed Jan. 17, 2013).
That’s the case in which the Federal Circuit held that a 22-year old takings case was not ripe because even though the agency denied Hage’s every application for a grazing permit, it
Having now had a chance to review in detail the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion in Horne v. U.S. Dep’t of Agriculture, No. 12-123 (June 10, 2013), we were struck by how at least one of the reactions to the decision painted it as a “narrow, specialized ruling” that’s more of a one-off, than
We haven’t had time to write up our thoughts about today’s unanimous Supreme Court opinion in Horne v. U.S. Dep’t of Agriculture, No. 12-123, but to tide you over until then, here are the initial reports on the case:
Here’s the BIO recently filed by the United States in Estate of Hage v. United States, No. 12-918 (cert. petition filed Jan. 17, 2013). This brief responds to the cert petition which seeks Supreme Court review of Estate of Hage v. United States, 687 F.3d 1281 (Fed. Cir. 2012).
In that case