Today is Good Friday, an official state holiday in Hawaii, so we’re reposting our annual recounting of how it came to be that the State commemorates the date of the crucifixion, and how that squares with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Turns out that it doesn’t really. It’s just coincidence that the “spring
Here’s an interesting case upcoming on the Hawaii Supreme Court’s oral argument calendar that is worth following. (April 29, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. – the court is taking the show on the road, and the arguments will be at the gym at Kealakehe High School, in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island.)
In Molfino v.
It’s Friday, so we’re slacking a bit on the blogging. But our colleagues at the Nossaman firm have given us a couple of good pieces for our reading enjoyment.
Since this is the season for self-congratulatory industry awards, we can’t overlook one of our industry’s highest honors, the Zoning and Planning Law Report Land Use Decision Awards (aka the “ZiPLeRs”). For those of you who do not subscribe to the Zoning and Planning Law Report, the “strangest, or at least more dramatic” land use
The Hawaii Supreme Court has issued an opinion in Kauai Springs, Inc. v. Kauai Planning Comm’n, No. SCWC 29440 (Feb. 28, 2014). In its preview of the case, the court framed the issue thusly:
In its application, Kauai Springs argues that the ICA gravely erred by: 1) concluding that Kauai Springs impliedly assented
Our Owners’ Counsel of America colleague William Blake, a partner in the Lincoln office of Nebraska law firm Baylor Evnen, has put up a guest post on OCA’s Eminent Domain Law Blog about the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline that recently saw a Nebraska trial court invalidating a state statute as unconstitutional.
Bill writes:
Word comes our way that a bill has been introduced in the Hawaii legislature that would eliminate the primary jurisdiction doctrine and the requirement to exhaust administrative remedies for a narrow class of cases to allow a neighbor to “enforce zoning violations related to transient vacation rental on neighboring property.”
Here’s more on that bill which we noted the other day that is making its way through the Florida legislature. The bill would prohibit Florida municipal and local governments from inserting a condition in a development permit unless the exaction is related to the “direct impact of a proposed development.”
I have a long-running and good-natured contest with my Owners’ Counsel and ABA colleague Dwight Merriam about who gets items of interest “fastest with the mostest.” More than a few times has he sent me items, only to find out that we’ve already posted on the subject, or there is a post in the
Here’s the Answer Brief on the Merits, filed last week in the California Supreme Court in City of Perris v. Stamper.
That’s the case in which the court is considering whether, in the context of determining just compensation, the judge or the jury gets to decide whether a city’s exaction is something that