What we're reading today:
- The Hawaii Supreme Court: A Legacy for Gov. Neil Abercrombie? - from Civil Beat ("[Governor Neil] Abercrombie, who himself turns 74 next month, has the opportunity to make an impact on Hawaii that will outlive his administration — to have an 'Abercrombie court.'").
- Public gets to vet judicial hopefuls - an editorial from the Honolulu Star-Advertiser ("Last November, Circuit Judge Karl Sakamoto ruled in favor of the Star-Advertiser in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking the governor's release of the commission's list of judicial candidates. Only then, and belatedly, did Abercrombie release names of candidates for Circuit Court judgeships and for a vacancy on the state Supreme Court, which emerged when former Gov. Linda Lingle promoted then-Associate Justice Mark Recktenwald to chief justice. By then, the state Senate had already confirmed Abercrombie nominee Sabrina McKenna to the high court."). Disclosure: we represented the S-A in the case mentioned - more here.
- Update on the Berkeley Hillside Case - the California Supreme Court will review Berkeley Hillside Preservation v. City of Berkeley, the case dealing with "significant effects" and categorical exemptions under CEQA - via the Abbott and Kindermann Land Use Law Blog.
- Filarsky v. Delia: A New Supreme Court Private Individual Immunity Decison - a summary of the case from lawprof Sheldon Nahmod. Disclosure: we filed an amicus brief in the case in support of the attorney who claimed qualified immunity.
- Land Use Rules Have Prevented Four Million People From Moving to the Bay Area - from the PropertyProf Blog.
