Here's the recording of last week's program we did for the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center, "Constitutional Law and States of Emergency: Lessons from Hawaii's Judicial History for the COVID-19 Pandemic."
Links to the cases and other materials we referred to in the presentation are posted here.
Tomorrow, we'll be joining Honolulu lawyer Jeff Portnoy, and Dr. Keli‘i Akina for a free, open-to-the-public program sponsored by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, "Lockdowns, testing and tracking: Are they all really legal?"
Jeffrey Portnoy and Robert Thomas will talk about what we can expect as the state and counties slowly lift their seemingly endless stay-at-home orders, which have discriminated between “essential” and “nonessential” workers, mandated “social distancing” and mask-wearing, and imposed 14-day quarantines on arriving airport passengers, both tourists and residents returning home.During the hourlong event, Portnoy and Thomas will consider whether businesses destroyed or devastated by the lockdowns have any legal recourse, and whether proposals being suggested to revive Hawaii’s devastated tourism industry, such as replacing the 14-day quarantines with various forms of testing and tracking, might violate constitutional privacy protections.
Register here.
