No less a light than Albert Einstein is reported to have said that the “definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” That quote has always seemed more apocryphal than accurate to us, but it’s a good definition regardless of who first uttered it.
Exhibit “A” appended
So you think you’ve seen accretion (the growth of new land on littoral or riparian property)? Check out the above video (also here), showing the latest dramatic lava flow on the Big Island of Hawaii. Now that’s accretion.
Is there a legal angle to this? Of course there is. To start you off
The old adage is that a waterway is “navigable” for purposes of federal law if it is deep enough to float a Supreme Court opinion. Seriously, though, the less cheeky test of navigability is whether a waterway is capable of being used in its natural state as an avenue of commerce, meaning whether it was
To those who were able to join us this evening for the celebration of the publication of Eminent Domain – A Handbook of Condemnation Law, thank you.
The University of Hawaii Law School sponsored the reception, and it was good to see so many colleagues and friends in attendance. U.H. put the event
For those who tuned in to today’s webinar Eminent Domain: Redevelopment Challenges for Local Government, here are the cases I spoke about during my session:
Update: The Court has invited the Solicitor General to provide the views of the federal government, so we’re still on hold.
At its December 9, 2011 conference, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to review Corboy v. Louie, No. 11-336 (cert. petition filed Sep. 15, 2011). That’s the case seeking review of
The Star-Advertiser reports this breaking story — Governor makes names of court nominees public:
Following a court order prompted by a Honolulu Star-Advertiser lawsuit, Gov. Neil Abercrombie released the names of nominees to the Hawaii Supreme Court and two Circuit Court judgeships.
Attorney General David Louie said the governor still disagrees with the court
Last week, we filed the ABA’s amicus brief in Filarksy v. Delia, No. 10-1018 (cert. granted Sep. 27, 2011), the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether a private lawyer hired by a local government is entitled to claim the same immunities from section 1983 lawsuits as his government-employed counterparts. Our
This is a post for those who decided they wanted to visit a law blog today instead of (a) filling their bellies with the usual Thanksgiving fare; (b) watching football on TV; (c) gearing up for the insanity of the day-after shopping; or (d) pretty much anything else.
Seriously, what are you doing reading a
Today on behalf of the American Bar Association, we filed this amicus brief in Filarsky v. Delia, No. 10-1018 (cert. granted Sep. 27, 2011).
The issue in the case involves the immunities that lawyers may be entitled to claim in civil rights actions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. It’s not a land use case