Judiciary

Hawaii Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald delivered the State of the Judiciary address today at a joint session of the State Senate and House....

...With ambulance chasers in positions of power, both the House and Senate are poised to advance HB189 and SB137 in separate hearings on Friday....

The case thus represents a target-rich environment for the petitioners and the court....

Anyone who was around in the 1960s and 1970s remembers those paintings and prints of sad children with oversize eyes. They were ubiquitous....

Last month, the Hawaii Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion which declined to impose a duty of reasonable care on the Hawaii County Planning Department....

...the LUC violated petitioners’ constitutional rights....

...new and important cases were decided by the Hawaii courts this year....

...the voters agreed that there's no good reason to keep the JSC lists secret, the same result as the lawsuit....

...four categories: attorney access for low-income litigants; support for self-represented litigants; support for litigants with limited language proficiency; and support for people with disabilities....

On November 10, the Third Circuit (Hawaii county) launched its Veterans Treatment Court with an opening ceremony held in the courtroom of Chief Judge Ronald Ibarra....

...the election being conducted by Defendant Nago and the State of Hawaii Office of Elections is unconstitutional under the Seventeenth Amendment....

Abercrombie today announced the appointments of Jeffrey P. Crabtree and Christine E. Kuriyama to the Circuit Court of the First Circuit....

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

Today must be election contest day at the Hawaii Supreme Court....

...Last week, the House of Representatives voted to authorize Speaker John Boehner to file a lawsuit challenging President Obama’s failure to fully implement Obamacare....

Today, the Hawaii Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Oahu Publications, Inc. v. Abercrombie....

The case involved three buildings near the shoreline on the Big Island....

Officers, Prosecutors, Lawmakers and Conservationists Meet at UH Law School....

This program will cover recent Hawaii case law, including the recent Hawaii Supreme Court decision regarding identifying the certified shoreline....

Only five states—Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Vermont— had no wiretap requests during 2013....

...In 2013, the state spent $199,000 a year for each bed at the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility (HYCF), yet 75 percent of youth released from HYCF were re-adjudicated or convicted as an adult within three years....

On June 13, 2014, the HAWSCT accepted cert in Oahu Publications, Inc., dba The Honolulu Advertiser v. Neil Abercrombie....

...several members of the State of Hawaii Land Use Commission were sued by the property owner in their individual as well as official capacities....

...Baron and Budd negotiated a $3.7 million settlement on behalf of the State of Hawaii and a $1.6 million settlement on behalf of the State of Mississippi....

This year National Parents Organization of Hawaii introduced several bills related to addressing abuses of the Child Support Enforcement Agency....

...the only thing standing between the bill and the rest of us is Governor Abercrombie's veto pen....

In Malulani Group, Ltd. v. Kaupo Ranch, Ltd., No. 30509 (May 5, 2014), the issue was whether the owner of a landlocked parcel could assert an easement....

The terms will begin on July 1, 2014 and last for three years....

...several of our law firm colleagues also are active bloggers in their respective fields...

If confirmed by the State Senate, Nakamoto will serve in office for six years.... 

Your first reaction may be "well, duh." But....

...Judge A. Wallace Teshima’s truly final order in the case: the Order on Objection to Notice of Compliance, which coincidentally (or perhaps not) was issued on the same day (February 18, 2014) as the Ninth Circuit opinion....

...work ethic concerns, lack of professionalism in the workplace, questions concerning the propriety of conduct toward women in professional contexts, and the ability to serve at the level of a Supreme Court Justice....

Yesterday, according to the coconut wireless, was the official last day on the Hawaii Supreme Court for Associate Justice Simeon Acoba....

Looks like they're at it again, a solution in search of a problem....

The Hawaii Supreme Court has been on a roll lately....

On Tuesday, February 18, 2014, Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie named Judge Michael D. Wilson as his nomination for associate justice to the Supreme Court....

Judge Wilson, 60, ... was a chairperson of the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources and Commission, commissioner for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission and executive director for the state Division of Consumer Advocacy.....

You file a crap brief with an appellate court. Shame on you....

Shapiro has closely examined the relationship between law and freedom....

The specialized court began last year with three defendants and has now grown to ten defendants....

...for the impending vacancy in the judicial office of the Associate Justice, Supreme Court, State of Hawaiʻi upon the mandatory retirement of Associate Justice Simeon R. Acoba, Jr. in March 2014.... 

HAWSCT: Triggers To Administrative Appeals Must Be Clear And Noticed....

If there's one thing that keeps appellate lawyers up at night, it's jurisdictional questions....

some of the lectures are open to the public....

Prior to this decision, the State could remove children from their parents’ home, and parents who could not afford an attorney were often left to their own devices....