Entries for 'Robert Thomas'

...limiting voting on certain constitutional amendments to a "person who is a citizen or national of the United States and who is of at least one-quarter Northern Marianas Chamorro or Northern Marianas Carolinian blood...."

...a case to watch being argued next week in the Hawaii Supreme Court....

...Oral arguments in the case are set for January 19, 2017....

...holdovers from the legacy economy -- the owners of city-issued taxi medallions and permits -- did not have their property taken when the city allowed ridesharing services to operate....

Thursday, October 6, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. at Aliiolani Hale....

The mayor and county council hired a lawyer who did not have an engineering degree -- only a bachelors with a major in English and a minor in Hawaiian studies, plus a JD....

... the "compensation culture" ....

...the County of Kauai is condemning several Hanalei-area parcels to expand an adjacent public beach park....

HAWICA Rejects Planning Department's Formalistic Definition Of "Applicant" In Vacation Rental Case....

The case involves three parcels on Kauai -- one of which is owned by a fellow who has been a thorn in the County's side....

...one of the rare people in public life who actually showed political courage to do the right thing when literally not one of his colleagues had the guts to join him....

...the agency should have adopted rules and because it had not, the specific practices were invalid....

...the Hawaii Supreme Court clarified a point of appellate procedure that has been unnecessarily vague -- and therefore dangerous -- for a while....

Tuesday, June 28, 2016 11:30am

...omit the most densely populated, and therefore the most useful, portion of the route....

...if a taking is abandoned or dismissed prior to final judgment, the condemnor is on the hook for "damages."....

...his argument allowed careful listeners to see the analogy to Jim Crow southern governments....

Official full-length Ninth Circuit video recording of the hearings....

"...the consequences to landowners even for inadvertent violation can be crushing...."

...the late request by the University to remove Judge Amano ... out of a fear that retaining her might be overturned on appeal, invites the Board to subvert its own independent judgment....

After A Judicial Feeding Frenzy, The Hawaii Supreme Court Searches For Rules To Fix The Office Of Elections....

If there's one thing that makes lawyers sit bolt upright in a sweat at 3 am, it's the prospect of missing a jurisdictional deadline....

...the unanimous Hawaii Supreme Court threw out the conviction of the farmer, tagged by Officer Fuiava of Five-O for transporting a load of cabbage uncovered....

"Why not just send it straight to the justices, if they are going to decide it eventually?”

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at 8:45 a.m....

...we have an old eminent domain code and don't have a whole lot of current decisional law applying it....

... when it makes allegations like this, there's not going to be much doubt about the outcome, is there? ....

Guam land titles can be seriously messed up....

Here's what we are reading today....

...the "agricultural lands" section of the Hawaii Constitution isn't self-executing....

Evenwel has transformed the "one-person, one-vote'" rule in reapportionment cases into more of a "one-person, one-representative" principle....

...Evenwel is the sleeper case of the Term, and opened the possibility that the we might finally get an answer to a question the Supreme Court has dodged for over fifty years....

Bottom line: the plaintiff's takings claims are going to trial....

...We've asked whether Hawaii also might need a Property Rights Court....

The State removed the civil rights lawsuit to U.S. District Court in Honolulu....

The Hawaii Legislature is evaluating a series of bills which, taken collectively, would radically overhaul the way judges and justices are selected....

The contempt motion is on the Court's January 15, 2016 conference calendar, so we should know the results soon after that....

A case that we've been following with some mild amusement has reached the Hawaii Supreme Court....

Since about the 1970's, sugar plantations have been legal pariahs....

If you want a crash course in Hawaii's unique (some would say weird) water law, you can't do better than this video....

...last week, the Hawaii Supreme Court issued a 4-1 ruling in Friends of Makakilo v. D.R. Horton-Schuler Homes, LLC....

..."execution of the 2012 General Election fell short of the electorate's reasonable expectations" -- ICA, Dec 18, 2015....

...asking the Court to slap the State, the Governor, OHA and its trustees, and Nai Aupuni (and others, including the ironically-named Akamai Foundation) for violating the Court's injunction....