Back to the Hawaiian-only election. Here’s an interview from ThinkTech Hawaii which asks “Is Nai Aupuni Sponsored by the State Government?“
The interview is conducted by the plaintiff in the Akina v. Hawaii case, and the interviewees are one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, Michael Lilly, and the other is U.
Here’s the latest on the now-cancelled “Nai Aupuni” Hawaiians-only poll/election, described by one local commentator as having “the integrity of a Costco membership,” and by Election law maven Rick Hasen as the “Oprah” theory of elections after the organization cancelled the extended vote and invited all candidates to come to the convention once…
One for all you Court of Federal Claims mavens: a new cert petition, filed On Wednesday, that once again puts front and center 28 U.S.C. § 1500, the statute which bars the CFC from hearing claims that are “pending in any other court” against the United States.
The statute was last interpreted…
We always enjoy reading the briefs filed by the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence because they reference “first principles” and are usually heavy on the history. We like history.
This amicus brief, filed by CCJ today in support of the cert petition in Arrigoni Ent., LLC v. Town of Durham, No. 15-631 (cert. petition…
Here’s one more amici brief supporting the the cert petition in Arrigoni Ent., LLC v. Town of Durham, No. 15-631 (cert. petition filed Nov. 10, 2015). (Here is the first amicus brief filed today, and here’s the second.)
This one — on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal…
Here’s the second amicus curiae brief supporting the the cert petition in Arrigoni Ent., LLC v. Town of Durham, No. 15-631 (cert. petition filed Nov. 10, 2015). (Here’s the first.)
This brief was filed by the Institute for Justice, and authored by Supreme Court takings maven Michael Berger:
1. It is…
Here’s the first in a series of amicus briefs we’re going to post which urge the Supreme Court to grant the cert petition in Arrigoni Ent., LLC v. Town of Durham, No. 15-631 (cert. petition filed Nov. 10, 2015).
This amicus brief was filed by the Cato Institute, and like the petition, …
Here’s the first in a series of posts we’re going to put up, with the cert petition and the supporting amici briefs (ours included) in Arrigoni, Ent., LLC v. Town of Durham, No. 150631 (petition filed Nov. 10, 2015).
In that case, the Second Circuit in a two-sentence ruling, summarily affirmed the District Court’s dismissal…
Here’s a case we’ve been following for quite a while, waiting for the opinion to drop.
And now it has. In State v. Palama, No. CAAP-12-0000434 (Dec. 11, 2015), the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals, in an unpublished memorandum opinion, upheld the trial court’s dismissal of criminal trespass charges against a fellow who asserted that…
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…
