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KamV Jud History Center

Here are the links and other materials which we spoke about in this afternoon’s program for the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center, “Constitutional Law and States of Emergency: Lessons from Hawaii’s Judicial History for the COVID-19 Pandemic.”

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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

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Join us starting tomorrow, Tuesday, May 12, 2020 for the 34th Land Use Institute. Originally scheduled for April in Tampa, we obviously couldn’t do tha, so we did the next best thing — moved this venerable course online. The Planning Chairs (Frank Schnidman and Dean Patricia Salkin) have assembled the usual hot topics session

Please mark your calendars for Friday, May 15, 2020 at 2:30pm Eastern Time, for the teleforum sponsored by the Federalist Society’s Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group, “COVID-19 & Property Rights: Do Government Actions in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Create Compensable Takings?”  

The issue: how should courts evaluate the claims for

Two more complaints challenging covid shutdown orders as takings (inter alia). Add to the growing list. See here, here, here and here, for other similar complaints.

The first is from California. It asserts that ordering “nonessential” businesses to shut down is a taking. The complaint alleges that unless the

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There’s still time to join us tomorrow, Friday, April 24, 2020 at 2-3pm Eastern Time, they will be presenting “Strategies for Litigating Regulatory Taking Cases” in a webinar produced by ALI-CLE. Register here (multiple attendee discounts available). 

At the recent ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Nashville, our colleagues

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To all who joined from Hawaii and across the nation, thank you for doing so. As I mentioned during the webinar, here is the video and links to the cases and other materials I spoke about: 

  • “Emergency does not create power. Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon

Join us next Tuesday, April 14, 2020, at 12 noon Hawaii Time (3pm PDT, 6pm EDT) for a free webinar sponsored by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, “Safety vs. Freedom: Are There Limits to Lockdowns?” Register here

Here’s the description of the program:

Governments at every level in Hawaii have

Missed out on the 2021 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference swag?

Well fear not: here’s your chance to get your high-class reminder — a kit of road warrior essentials — to save the Conference date on your calendar. We’re already underway with planning the agenda and faculty, so it’s never too soon