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Update: our thoughts on the Hawaii-law claims in this article, “Hoist the Yellow Flag and Spam® Up: The Separation of Powers Limitation on Hawaii’s Emergency Authority,” 43 U. Haw. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2020).

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Here’s the second complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii challenging the governor’s

Here’s the latest complaint challenging coronavirus-related orders (in this case, the City of Los Angeles’ rent payment and eviction moratoria) as a taking.

More here from the LA Times: “Landlord group sues city of L.A. over coronavirus anti-eviction protections.”

You should probably read the entire document, as it is drafted well. But

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Next Wednesday, June 17, 2020, at 5:30pm Hawaii Time, we’ll be speaking for the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center about “Constitutional Law and States of Emergency: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.”

This is a one-hour program, open to the public, where we will take a dive into Hawaii’s emergency preparedness and

Here’s the latest court order telling business and property owners that they have little chance of success on the claims asserted in various mostly-constitutional challenges to shut-down orders.

This time the businesses are in North Carolina, and appear to be — ahem — so-called “gentlemen’s clubs” (and by that, we’re not referencing those in St.