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Lawyers who deal with issues of navigability understand

those typically fact-intensive servitude cases involving reclamation and flood prevention projects, and the thigh-bone-is-connected-to-the-hip-bone tracing of waterways

Here’s an opinon you need to read if you are a navigability wonk, one of those lawyers who knows what the “equal footing doctrine” is, a Lewis and

On January 6, 2011, the Hawaii Supreme Court issued two opinions in the Big Island reapportionment cases, Solomon v. Abercrombie, No. SCPW-11-0000732, and Matsukawa v. Hawaii, No. SCPW-11-0000741.

Here (and below) is the opinion in Solomon v. Abercombie (the opinion in the other case is identical).

Here is the oral argument:

Stream it

Last year, we filed an amicus brief in

Download HEWITT.BRANDT113011

http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/MEROW.MUSCOGEE120211.pdf

http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/MEROW.ROSEBUD120211.pdf

http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/BUSH.PRAIRIE112911.pdf

http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/DAMICH.COEURDALENE11182011.pdf

http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/DAMICH.IOWATRIBE11172011.pdf

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USS Missouri, USS Arizona Memorial, the Battleship Row moorings,
and two tugs rendering honors. Ford Island in the background.

“Sacrifice,” “courage,” and “service” were words repeated many times today at the ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend, to bear witness

U. Hawaii Law School alums – comes this devastating news from Dean Avi Soifer:

Dear Members of the William S. Richardson School of Law Community;

I have the awful task of informing you that Professor Jon Van Dyke passed away earlier today while at a conference in Australia.

I am personally so very sorry to

Posted here. These are the exhibits attached to these pleadings.

Exhibits Attached to governor’s Motion for Summary Judgment