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…
Here are three more items from the Honolulu media about the case in which the Star-Advertiser is seeking the Judicial Selection Commission lists from the Governor (Star-Advertiser v. Abercrombie, No. 11-1-1871-08). Disclosure: we represent the Star-Advertiser in this case.
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The Hawaii Attorney General today issued a statement responding to the recently-announced changes in the Judicial Selection Commission Rules, whereby the Commission said that from here forward, it would publicly disclose the names on the list of judicial nominees at the same time it transmits those lists to the “appointing authorities” (governors and Chief Justices). …
We’ve been kind of busy in the last few days with a couple of appellate briefs, so haven’t had a lot of time to post up the latest cases and articles of interest. But here’s what we are reading today, in between brief writing:
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In this press release issued yesterday, the Hawaii Judicial Selection Commission announced it has amended its rules so that from now on, the JSC “will release the names of the nominees transmitted to the Governor or Chief Justice at the time they are transmitted and will be permitted to disclose statistical and historical information…
Here’s what’s going on:
“We are extremely pleased,” said newspaper attorney…
As we noted here, the circuit court today ordered Governor Abercrombie to make public the list of nominees for the vacancy on the Hawaii Supreme Court (eventually filled by Justice McKenna) that was transmitted to him from the Judicial Selection Commission earlier this year. More from the Star-Advertiser‘s breaking news story here.…
In a ruling delivered today, Circuit Judge Karl Sakamoto ordered Governor Abercrombie to publicly release the list of names transmitted to the Governor by the Judicial Selection Commission earlier this year for the vacancy on the Court that was subsequently filled by Justice Sabrina McKenna. Star-Advertiser v. Abercrombie, No. 11-1-1871-08. We represent the newspaper…
Yesterday we filed the Star-Advertiser‘s brief responding to Governor Abercrombie’s cross-motion for summary judgment in the case in which the Star-Advertiser seeks disclosure of the JSC list from the Governor. (We represent the Star-Advertiser.) The hearing on these motions is scheduled for November 14, 2011 at 9:00 a.m.ext
Previously filed documents: the Complaint…
Governor Abercrombie filed his opposition to the Star-Advertiser‘s motion for summary judgment, and his own cross-motion for summary judgment in the case in which the Star-Advertiser seeks disclosure of the JSC list from the Governor. The exhibits attached to these documents are posted here. [Disclosure: we represent the Star-Advertiser.] The hearing on…
