Judiciary

...four states - California, Idaho, Vermont, and Hawai'i - collectively ship 10,500  prisoners to for-profit prisons outside their home states.  West Virginia is developing a plan to do the same....

In his half-century on the bench, he presided over some of the most sensational of Hawai‘i’s organized crime trials, and he upheld the 1967 Hawai‘i Land Reform Act that shifted property ownership in Hawai‘i from large trusts to ordinary citizens....

Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald has appointed Lloyd A. Poelman as judge of the District Court of the Second Circuit....

Vacancy: District Family Judge, District Family Court of the Third Circuit 

Retention: Nakamura, DelRosario, Border

Fewer than half the U.S. population lives in communities where the most basic methods of diverting people with severe mental illness from the criminal justice system are being used....

Approximately half of mass shootings are caused by individuals with untreated severe mental illness....

Hawaii's attorney general wants to enjoin four people he says are practicing law illegally and operating a fraudulent mortgage-relief scheme in the state....

Comments must be post-marked, emailed, faxed, or hand delivered no later than Monday, September 30, 2013....

Roger Epstein, senior partner of Cades Schutte Law Firm, talks with Dr. Keli’i Akina about Hawaii as a center for global transformation....

... I'd like to hail my fellow law bloggers who, like me, make the time to share thoughts about the legal issues of the day ....

He said it would not have necessarily been easier to convict Deedy of the lesser manslaughter charge....

Judicial Selection Commission is accepting applications and nominations to fill the following anticipated judicial vacancy:  Associate Justice, Supreme Court

The ethical response is to try again, not to proceed in violation of Hawaii law and court rules....

“Botched Abortion” project designed to hold abortionists accountable for medical malpractice....

The legal team defending California’s marriage amendment filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court Saturday to vacate a premature order that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit issued Friday....

There are currently nine youths between the ages of 13-17 in the Wrap Hawai‘i pilot program....

the State of Hawaii's attempted land grab would have undermined the sanctity of all Land Court titles....

The Chief Justice, with the consent of the Senate, shall fill a vacancy in the district courts....

Will Hawaii’s soft-on-crime Judiciary allow an insanity plea to a Muslim claiming a religious justification for acts of violence or terrorism?

Marjorie Manuia was appointed a part-time district judge in 1982 and served two terms as a Family Court district judge from 1984 to 1996....

Honolulu Councilmember and Congressional candidate Stanley Chang has lost his right to practice law in Hawaii....

...the signs are treated by visitors less as warnings and more as centerpieces of funny photographs to show the folks back home....

the "private attorney general" doctrine...allows a prevailing party to recover fees and costs....

Fuchs claims that Judge Ayabe's wife did legal work for three of Fuchs's adversaries in the foreclosure case....

Watson will be the only Native Hawaiian serving as an Article III judge ....

...the case seemed like a good vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the pretext-in-eminent-domain issue it teased us with in Kelo....

"Can it be that the idiots who evidently run the Hawaii Business magazine have never heard about the principle that statutes have to be constitutional?"

Scott Bullock, the Institute for Justice lawyer who argued Kelo will be speaking next Monday at the University of Hawaii School of Law ....

...the environmental lawyers upped the ante by calling Callies a liar and a sell-out....

...it was noted that no one in that van had leg shackles on....

...the court's environmental jurisprudence wasn't so much focused on outcome, but rather on process....

...Recktenwald delivered his biennial State of the Judiciary address on the Judiciary’s new YouTube channel....

The oral argument calendar of the Hawaii Supreme Court  looks pretty interesting.... 

...the good professor labeled the record of the 1993-2010 Hawaii Supreme Court on property issues "appalling," so it should come as no surprise that two of the beneficiaries of those rulings have now rallied to that court's defense....

The Hawaii Supreme Court has accepted certiorari and agreed to review the Intermediate Court of Appeals' unpublished memorandum opinion in Diamond v. Dobbin....

NFIB, CATO Instiutute, Owners' Counsel of America, and lawprofs James Ely, David Callies, Todd Zywicki, Randy Barnett, Eric Claeys, and D. Benjamin Barros -- have filed an amicus brief ....

Intermediate Court of Appeals held that the Hawaii Senate's failure to confirm a sitting Land Use Commissioner for a second term did not disqualify him from office ....

In 2009, in the "Superferry" case, the Hawaii Supreme Court, after years of hinting (but not finding a suitable vehicle), formally adopted the "private attorney general' doctrine ....

The interim appointment fills a new seat in compliance with Act 139 of the 2012 Legislature, which increased Hawaii Paroling Authority members from three to five.

Judge Ochiai, 57, will fill a vacancy left by Judge Richard Pollack, who became Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court....

Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald today appointed Kevin A. Souza to the District Family Court of the First Circuit (Oahu). 

• Blake v. County of Kauai Planning Comm'n,
• Kanahele v. Maui County Council