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Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Youth activists try to revive suit over Trump fossil fuel policies
By Court House News @ 3:14 AM :: 387 Views :: Energy, Environment

...The plaintiffs argue that three executive orders focused on “unleashing” American energy are unconstitutional....

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Friday, April 10, 2026
Military families argue injuries from Hawaii jet fuel water crisis weren't service-related
By Court House News @ 2:10 AM :: 1199 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment, Military

... A 1950 Supreme Court ruling prohibits service members from suing the federal government for injuries arising from military service ....

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Thursday, April 2, 2026
Hawaii bill to ban commercial reef fishing stalls
By Court House News @ 10:17 PM :: 2611 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Tourism

... The Hawaii Senate Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection voted 2-2, leaving the recommendation to ban commercial aquarium fishing on Oahu unadopted ....

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Wednesday, April 1, 2026
SCOTUS Overturns Ban on so-called 'Gay Conversion Therapy'
By Court House News @ 6:00 PM :: 2928 Views :: First Amendment, Health Care, Religion

... the law only prohibited counseling conversations in one direction. It allowed conversations that push young people toward a gender identity different from their sex ....

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Wednesday, April 1, 2026
In Hawaii trial, Navy fights claim of ongoing fuel spill risk
By Court House News @ 1:55 AM :: 3012 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military

... officials say past spills ended and sweeping fixes have made recurrence unlikely ....

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Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Maryland high court rejects localities’ plea for climate change damages
By Court House News @ 2:16 AM :: 4377 Views :: Energy, Environment

...The court held that the U.S. Constitution and federal law preempts state claims arising from out-of-state and international greenhouse gas emissions....

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Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Hawaii Sues to Save 'Gender Ideology' in Housing
By Court House News @ 2:54 PM :: 3567 Views :: National News

... The federal suit, filed in the Northern District of California, hinges on guidance issued last year by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ....

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Sunday, March 15, 2026
Hawaii Sues to Maintain Anti-Asian Discrimination at Universities
By Court House News @ 3:33 AM :: 2943 Views :: Higher Education

... With the administration seeking seven years' worth of detailed data from every U.S. university by next week, a coalition of states says student privacy and institutional funding are at risk ....

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Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Shareholder Suit: $47M settlement with Hawaiian Electric approved
By Court House News @ 9:11 PM :: 1052 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Ethics

... Hawaiian Electric Industries was sued by investors who say it misrepresented steps the utility was taking to mitigate wildfire risks ....

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Monday, March 2, 2026
Hawaii high court takes up 20-year fight over retiree health benefits
By Court House News @ 11:32 PM :: 1255 Views :: Labor

... A class of roughly 100,000 former public employees returned to court in a case that has outlasted careers, mayoral terms and a chief justice ....

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Sunday, February 22, 2026
States sue Trump administration for terminating 'Green New Deal' grants
By Court House News @ 12:19 AM :: 1057 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News

... OMB Director Russell Vought posted online that the Energy Department would be terminating “nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left’s climate agenda” ....

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Saturday, February 21, 2026
Bribery Scandal Looms over Legislature, but they make time to deal with Feral Chickens
By Court House News @ 3:15 PM :: 1433 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government

... lawmakers debated bills surrounding sports betting, legal rights for coral reefs and feral chickens, but an ongoing bribery investigation cast a shadow over the capitol ....

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Saturday, February 21, 2026
HUD Moves to Kick Illegals out of Public Housing
By Court House News @ 2:52 PM :: 991 Views :: National News

... a new proposed rule to require proof of U.S. citizenship or eligible status for every resident in HUD-funded housing, including “mixed status households” ....

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Friday, February 20, 2026
Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s one-man tariff war
By Court House News @ 12:52 PM :: 888 Views :: National News, Taxes

... In anticipation of the high court’s ruling, big-name companies like Costco, Revlon and Bumble Bee Foods filed lawsuits in the U.S. Court of International Trade to secure tariff refunds for billions of dollars ....

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Friday, February 13, 2026
With military land leases expiring, Hawaii moves into unique negotiating position
By Court House News @ 2:46 PM :: 1073 Views :: Land Use, Military

... Green has two years to convince the feds to pay $10 billion for some of the most critical military training grounds in the Pacific ....

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Thursday, February 5, 2026
FTC settles with prescription drug middleman giant to lower pricing
By Court House News @ 12:01 AM :: 738 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living

... The agreement orders Express Scripts to offer plan members the lowest available cost for medicine like insulin rather than artificially inflated prices ....

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Friday, January 30, 2026
Kaneshiro-Mitsunaga Conspiracy: Judge Allows Lawsuit to Proceed
By Court House News @ 12:38 AM :: 1429 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement

... Federal prosecutors couldn't make criminal bribery charges stick for a former Honolulu prosecutor and engineering firm executives, but civil versions of the claims may live to see another trial ....

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Hawaii Baseball Coach at Center of MLB Gambling Scandal
By Court House News @ 12:21 PM :: 1565 Views :: Gambling

... Donny Kadokawa is one of the key witnesses in Yasiel Puig's trial over charges the former MLB star lied to federal agents about his dealings with an illegal bookmaker ....

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Saturday, January 10, 2026
34 years Later: Will State Supreme Court let Rapist Weasel Out?
By Court House News @ 12:21 PM :: 1227 Views :: Maui County, Judiciary

... Granillo struck her in the parking lot, dragged her into his car, drove her to a beach, held her at knifepoint and repeatedly sexually assaulted and beat her before she escaped ....

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Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Judge allows immigrants to challenge ICE courthouse arrests
By Court House News @ 1:29 PM :: 991 Views :: Judiciary

... The court has already issued preliminary orders staying the courthouse arrest policies within ICE’s San Francisco area of responsibility, which covers Northern California, Hawaii, Guam and Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands ....

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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
"I am the mayor. I apologize to no one."
By Court House News @ 11:11 AM :: 2532 Views :: Maui County, Police

... in the end, even lawyers didn't want this garbage case that fooled 'judge' Bissen ....

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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
​Booking.com fights to revive challenge to Hawaii tax rule
By Court House News @ 11:00 PM :: 1127 Views :: Taxes, Tourism

... Hawaii laws levy a general excise tax on accommodation bookings but the state insists Booking.com can't preemptively challenge the law before actually paying the tax ....

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Saturday, November 22, 2025
Texas Copies Hawaii Plavix Suit
By Court House News @ 12:30 PM :: 1031 Views :: Health Care

... the companies say Paxton is seeking to cash in due to a $700 million settlement agreement they reached with Hawaii ....

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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Gun owner fights silencer ban at Ninth Circuit
By Court House News @ 1:51 PM :: 1369 Views :: Second Amendment

... Suppressors are outright banned in eight states including Hawai'i ....

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Friday, November 14, 2025
Hawaii faces constitutional showdown over climate tax on cruise ships
By Court House News @ 11:29 PM :: 1780 Views :: Jones Act, Taxes, Tourism

... the Cruise Lines International Association and several Hawaii tour operators are asking for a preliminary injunction to block the law ....

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Friday, November 14, 2025
Former death row inmate sentenced to life for sex trafficking in Hawaii
By Court House News @ 2:07 AM :: 2354 Views :: Honolulu County, Higher Education, Judiciary, Law Enforcement

... Isaiah McCoy, who exploited multiple victims including a minor, received life in prison in federal court, in a volatile sentencing hearing marked by his outbursts ....

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Alleged Chinese Spy Given Hawaii Mansion
By Court House News @ 1:15 PM :: 2143 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, COVID-19

... Linda Sun was formerly a high-ranking aide in New York’s government. Now, she and her husband face potential prison time ....

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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Hawaii AG joins suit over Trump’s limits for FEMA grants
By Court House News @ 11:18 AM :: 1498 Views :: Maui County, National News, Hawaii State Government

...attempt by Trump to curtail the agency’s programs and shift the burden of emergency management back to individual states, as it was before Katrina....

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Monday, October 20, 2025
Lawsuit Filed Over Kamehameha Admission Policy
By Court House News @ 11:45 PM :: 2767 Views :: Akaka Bill, Education K-12

... The group challenges the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2006 decision in Doe v. Kamehameha Schools, which upheld the schools’ admissions policy by an 8-7 vote ....

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Saturday, October 18, 2025
Former Maui resident pleads guilty in fentanyl trafficking case
By Court House News @ 5:44 PM :: 1619 Views :: Maui County, Drugs

... man with 11 prior convictions, including five drug felonies in Hawaii, admitted to shipping nearly a pound of fentanyl to Maui ....

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Kaiser health care workers strike for better wages
By Court House News @ 10:37 AM :: 1404 Views :: Health Care, Labor

... Thousands of Kaiser employees in California, Oregon and Hawaii organized a five-day work stoppage after negotiations for higher pay and other demands stagnated ....

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Thursday, October 9, 2025
Corruption trial witness can pursue conspiracy claims against Honolulu officials
By Court House News @ 1:16 PM :: 2104 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement

... The ruling is a surprising shift in former Mitsunaga & Associates employee Laurel Mau’s favor, after a long-running legal battle that dates back more than a decade ....

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Thursday, October 9, 2025
Family argues helicopter maker is liable in fatal Hawaii crash
By Court House News @ 3:52 AM :: 1586 Views :: Kauai County, Judiciary, Tourism

... a case testing manufacturer immunity under a 1994 federal law ....

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Friday, October 3, 2025
Hawaii limits on concealed carry headed for Supreme Court
By Court House News @ 5:04 PM :: 1735 Views :: Second Amendment

... Aloha State gun owners argue Hawaii’s regulations on concealed handguns mirror the New York law that the high court shot down three years ago ....

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Red Hill: Judge Rules Against Navy
By Court House News @ 4:03 AM :: 2160 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military

... Kobayashi found that these disputes over material facts cannot be resolved without a full trial ....

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Saturday, September 27, 2025
Feds: Hawaii has until Oct 27 to remove all References to 'Gender Ideology' from Sex-Ed Programs
By Court House News @ 1:16 PM :: 2377 Views :: Education K-12, Family

... Hawaii joins a 16-state lawsuit filed Friday in an effort to keep transsexualizing your children ....

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Judge signals six-month delay of Hawaii jet fuel contamination case
By Court House News @ 2:17 AM :: 2678 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment, Military

... Courts previously allowed the Navy a yearlong stay in the case ....

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Regional pressure builds on Kaiser as Hawaii strike called
By Court House News @ 3:38 PM :: 2571 Views :: Health Care, Labor

... Kaiser workers in Hawaii joined three other Pacific states in voting for a strike, citing unsafe staffing levels and wage disparities with mainland counterparts ....

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Saturday, September 20, 2025
Court: Hawaii has Right to Sue Trump over Election Changes
By Court House News @ 3:07 AM :: 3266 Views :: Office of Elections, Republican Party

...Trump attempted in a March executive order to implement a proof of citizenship requirement for voting and ban mail-in ballots received after Election Day....

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Monday, July 14, 2025
Hawaii gang enforcer gets 30 years, ending landmark case
By Court House News @ 11:31 PM :: 4599 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Law Enforcement, Police, Politicians, Drugs

... drive-by shootings and armed robberies as part of the notorious Miske Enterprise ....

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Friday, July 4, 2025
Hawaii prison guard gets eight years for sexually abusing inmates
By Court House News @ 2:18 AM :: 1958 Views :: Law Enforcement

... A federal judge opted to add more years onto the correctional officer's sentence than the "shockingly low" two to three years recommended by federal guidelines....

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Friday, June 20, 2025
Navy faces key ruling in Hawaii fuel contamination case
By Court House News @ 11:58 PM :: 2896 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military

... A federal judge is deciding whether the U.S. Navy should be held liable for 543 Clean Water Act violations at its Red Hill fuel facility ....

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Friday, June 13, 2025
Against all odds, Hawaii’s children are returning
By Court House News @ 2:54 PM :: 2244 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

"...they have grandparents who just passed away recently or moved into assisted living, so now they can move back home and live in that house....”

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Hawaii justices examine doctors’ ability to challenge denied health insurance claims
By Court House News @ 3:13 AM :: 3410 Views :: Hawaii County , Health Care, Small Business

... questions that could reshape insurer-provider contracts statewide ....

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Lawsuit: Hawaii AG Accuses Trump of 'Distributing Machine Guns'
By Court House News @ 2:14 AM :: 1976 Views :: Second Amendment

...The states accuse the Trump administration of hiding violations of federal law prohibiting the possession of machine guns in a settlement agreement with manufactures of forced reset triggers....

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Friday, May 30, 2025
Hawaii cops sued over DUI arrests of sober drivers
By Court House News @ 1:23 AM :: 3141 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Police

... ACLU says Honolulu police routinely arrest sober drivers to falsely boost their numbers to secure federal funding ....

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Friday, May 16, 2025
Hawaii governor defends emergency housing powers at state Supreme Court
By Court House News @ 5:46 AM :: 3390 Views :: Maui County, Development, Homelessness, Cost of Living

... a case challenging Governor Josh Green's use of emergency powers to address the state's affordable housing crisis ....

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Wednesday, May 7, 2025
US Navy liable for fuel leak that sickened military families in Hawaii
By Court House News @ 11:03 PM :: 3631 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military

... In the long-awaited preliminary decision, U.S. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi awarded 17 plaintiffs damages ....

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Thursday, May 1, 2025
Hawaii legislature approves $20 billion state budget
By Court House News @ 1:38 PM :: 2402 Views :: Hawaii State Government

... Hawaii lawmakers passed the budget for the next two years and began voting on more than 200 bills as the legislative session draws to a close ....

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Saturday, April 26, 2025
Hawaii lawmakers reject bill to legalize sports gambling
By Court House News @ 4:30 AM :: 1615 Views :: Gambling

... Hawaii lawmakers failed to reconcile House and Senate versions of a sports betting bill, leaving the state without legal wagering ....

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