If you are wondering why the doors to most state, county, and city offices are locked today, remember that it isn’t another “furlough Friday,” or the day HGEA is voting on its new contract. No, today is the day that Hawaii celebrates Good Friday.
If you ask how “a religious holiday observed primarily…
We hesitated to post this opinion since it is way off-topic for the usual subjects of this blog, and the subject matter is something that has a tendency to flush out the extreme elements. But what the heck — it’s an interesting case, whichever side of this you might be on.
Besides, it’s a great…
Here’s what we’re reading today:
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Today, starting at 9:00 a.m. HST, we’ll be live blogging the Hawaii Senate Judicary Committee’s continued hearing on the Governor’s appointment of attorney David Louie as Attorney General.
We live blogged the first hearing last week.
Today, we’re live blogging the Hawaii Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Governor’s appointment of attorney David Louie as Attorney General. Louie has been serving as Acting AG since January 2010.
In Comm’n on Ethics of the State of Nevada v. Carrigan, No. 10-568 (cert. granted Jan 7, 2011), the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether a state statute which requires elected officials to recuse themselves from considering matters on which they appear to have conflicts of interest impermissibly infringes upon a city councilman’s First…
Louise Ing’s post on the unique unwritten rules of men’s haberdashery in Hawaii’s courtrooms and law offices (What Not to Wear – Hawaii Lawyers Edition) on her firm’s new blog Hawaii Litigation Blog, got us thinking. She wrote:
The sartorial customs of the Hawai`i legal profession are a frequent “oh by the…
Today, I received notice of the public launch of a new Hawaii law blog, Hawaii Litigation Blog. It looks like they have been posting since September of last year, but just went public. The blog is produced by the litigation practice group at the law firm Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, and its stated…
In a recent op-ed, Tennessee attorney Jeremy Hopkins
Al-Qaida, the Klan and property activists? (Jan. 20, 2011)
A Virginia Department of Emergency Management’s training manual (“Terrorism & Security Awareness Orientation for State Employees”) has labeled “property rights activists” as terrorists.
The manual contains a list of “Terrorist Organizations,” and includes Hamas, al-Qaida, and Hezbollah…
In Cobb v. City of Stockton, No. C062328 (Jan. 26, 2011), the California Court of Appeal (3d District) concluded that the property owner’s claim for inverse condemnation for a physical invasion of his property was not barred by California’s five-year statute of limitations, even though the City took possession nine years earlier.
In 1998…
