Judiciary

... Governor Green has nominated three Circuit Court Judges in the Circuit Court of the Third Circuit and Hannah Kihalani Springer to the Commission on Water Resource Management ....

“...Hawai’i is one of only five states that does not currently guarantee the right to legal counsel for children during the duration of their child welfare case....”

... Circuit Judge in the Circuit Court of the Third Circuit and District Family Judge, Second Circuit .... 

... CLUE: 'Vladimir Devens' ....

... The Governor has 30 days from his receipt of the list today to make his two appointments ....

... The Governor has 30 days from his receipt of the list today to make his appointment ....

... If convicted of the charged offense, Pham faces up to fifteen years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 ....

... litigation is becoming an increasingly significant source of uncertainty and risk in Hawai‘i’s housing market ....

... After a mistrial was declared, Boom met with Tyquiengco and gave him $1,100 ....

"...Subrogating insurers, the insurance companies argued, have rights that cannot be dismissed or negotiated away by other people or other parties...."

“…now comes the crisis in property insurance - much higher insurance premiums and insurers ceasing to write property insurance….” 

... 'We Can’t Just Assume We Have The Public’s Trust' ....

... The justices denied the oil and gas companies' petition without further explanation in Monday's orders list ....

... District Court judges and Independent Grand Jury Counsel ....

... litigation must be replaced by a system which provides basic compensation to wildfire victims, irrespective of the cause and associated fault ....

... the defendants may have a valid argument in favor of federal law since Honolulu is suing over conduct taking place outside of Hawaii’s borders ....

... Feds, once again, doing the job the State Judiciary can/will not ....

... reforms implemented in 2019 have not reduced pretrial incarceration ....

... the Solicitor General Urged the Supreme Court to Deny Requests Aimed at Stopping State and Local Lawsuits against Big Oil Companies from Advancing Toward Trial in State Courts ....

... Links And Materials From Hawaii Bar Association Takings Program ....

... it may be up to the US Supreme Court to set the matter straight ....

... Criminals were lined up when the doors opened, eager for a chance to do it all over again ....

... The State Judiciary can be counted on to twist the law to serve KSBE and HECO.  The Federal Judiciary doesn't even know who they are  ....

... The term of office of a circuit judge shall be ten years ....

... employees at our State, and the Department of Taxation in particular, have a lot of immunity too ....

... Common Cause, the nonpartisan watchdog, released its 2024 “Democracy Scorecard,” recording every member of Congress’ support for voting rights, Supreme Court ethics, and other reforms ....

... The chances of an expensive, boneheaded precedent being set are greatly enhanced ....

... A three-judge panel found that the public has a presumptive First Amendment right to see medical and health records attached to court filings, such as mental competency examinations ....

... this lawsuit seeks to compel companies to cease production and sale of oil and gas everywhere ....

... tax officials allegedly declined to pursue complaints and reports about certain tax avoiders ....

... All other Hawai'i media are pretending Green's settlement is real.  Fortunately, you are reading Hawai'i Free Press ....

...in so doing, the state court may have placed itself on a collision course with the Supreme Court of the United States....

... The Judicial Selection Commission is accepting applications and nominations to fill the following anticipated judicial vacancy ....

... one position is triple-extended ....

... Chief Judge, Intermediate Court of Appeals, State of Hawaiʻi ....

"The family court held that the redacted record could not be disclosed because of the impression of DHS and the family court that it might create."

... Rebecca A. Copeland, Brian A. Costa, Dyan M. Medeiros, and Steven R. Nichols to the Circuit Court of the First Circuit .... 

... CWS social workers did not seek immediate medical attention for John “A.B.” Doe after Geanna Bradley was found murdered on January 18, 2024, instead, on January 19, 2024, they placed him with Brandy Blas’ sister ....

... The quirky panel of 14 jurors had been coordinating outfits by color most days throughout the duration of trial ....

... The litigation model adopted by Hawaii, characterized by suing oil companies under broad claims about their contributions to climate change, demands a national spotlight for its potential to disrupt the constitutional equilibrium between state innovation and federal authority ....

... It appears that the US Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling in Trump v. United States will stop lower courts from jailing Trump for his porn-star hush money deals ....

... You won’t find any record of expungement proceedings on ECourtKokua—they’re secret ....

... after a McKinley High School student's life was claimed by a habitual traffic offender ....

... this law firm also filed a similar suit wherein JetBlue was subsequently blocked in its attempt to acquire Spirit Airlines ....

... rape, sodomy, forced oral copulation and fondling, physical beatings, starvation, theft and destruction of personal property, and failure to provide medical care, clothing, and medicine ....

... Examples of offenses which may be eligible for automatic expungement include domestic abuse, harassment by stalking, certain sex offenses, sexual exploitation, promoting pornography for minors, and habitual intoxicated driving ....

... the case should be in the Supreme Court’s domain given the implications it could have for the U.S. economy, national security and federalism ....

... nomination deadline May 20, 2024 ....

... The state is dismissed from a set of federal cases that aim to hold it liable for the deadly wildfires but may still face claims in state court ....

"Major decisions about our national energy policy must be made at the federal level, not dictated by one lawsuit brought by one city in its own courts.”