There we were, attending the recent conference on “The Takings Issue,” at Touro Law School. In the parking lot, we spy this:
Which got us to thinking: what would we put on our vanity license plate, were we inclined to do so? (Our answer at the top of this post).
And, it
Okay, we promise this is the last of our reviews of movies that are part of our firm’s upcoming law film festival, “Let’s Film All the Lawyers,” which starts tomorrow and runs through Friday, September 20, 2013, at the Honolulu Museum of Arts’ Doris Duke Theatre.
And as for what 12 Angry Men
Nothing! But as we noted yesterday, that doesn’t mean you might not be interested in our Damon Key colleague’s review of the film, part of our firm’s upcoming law film festival, “Let’s Film All the Lawyers” (September 14-20, 2013, Honolulu Museum of Arts’ Doris Duke Theatre).
Here’s Mark Murakami‘s review
It’s troubling when someone whom you regard as a mentor disapproves of something you’ve done, especially if the criticism is harsh, done publicly, and is in parts unfair.
That’s my reaction to “What the Hell Does the Holocaust Have to do With Inverse Condemnation?,” Professor Gideon Kanner’s objections, posted on his own Gideon’s
Our law firm’s annual legal film festival at the Honolulu Museum of Art’s Doris Duke Theatre will launch later this week with the Hawaii premiere of Hannah Arendt, an award-winning film about the controversial New Yorker reporting by Arendt about the Jerusalem war crimes trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in 1961.
During the festival
Here’s the latest case involving the TransCanada pipeline, a 2,151 mile petroleum pipline from Hardisty, Alberta in Canada, to Port Arthur, Texas, via Illinois and Oklahoma. In an earlier case (Rhinoceros Ventures Grp., Inc. v. TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P., 388 S.W.3d 405, 408 (Tex. App. 2012), a Texas court of appeals held that
We had such a blast last year putting on a film festival highlighting some of our favorite legal movies, we decided to do it again.
From Saturday, September 14 through Friday, September 20, 2013, we are again teaming up with the Honolulu Museum of Arts’ Doris Duke Theatre to sponsor screenings of three law-related films:
It’s true: as you get older, you forget birthdays. Thus, it only occurred to us today that three days ago, this blog’s “birthday” passed without notice. It hardly seems like seven years ago that we posted here for the first time. In law blog years, that’s quite a while.
Because doing this in
Here’s the latest in one of the federal lawsuits by the mortgage holders challenging Mortgage Resolution Partners and Richmond, California’s scheme to seize underwater mortgages by eminent domain.
On August 8, 2013, the plaintiffs filed a motion for a preliminary injunction (scheduled to be heard in San Francisco on September 13, 2013), which asks the
Our friend and colleague Paul Schwind has been keeping us up to date with the latest in the dual legal challenges to the Honolulu rail project. His last post focused on the state court happenings.
Here’s the latest on the federal court action, now awaiting oral argument in the coming weeks in the Ninth