Fires, superstorms, cataclysmic floods seem to abound across the nation. Property damage claims abound, but how should claims against public utility or governmental actors be handled? Are there strategic implications for bringing claims against the utility? What are the practical issues?Answers to these questions and more will be provided on a free webinar (conference call
As it often the case in the law, when you peel back one layer of an onion, you get more and more and more. In this case, after writing yesterday’s post on the three judge panel reviewing Governor Ige’s Emergency Proclamation for TMT, we wondered what other three judge panels exist in Hawaii law. We
While we are slowly migrating this blog as part of a rebranding, we could not pass up the opportunity to delve into one of the legal aspects of the ongoing discourse over the Thirty Meter Telescope (artistic rendering below).
Our friends at Civil Beat published an article about a TMT-related hearing on Monday, July 22
The Hawaii Supreme Court conducted oral arguments last week in the case of Umberger v. Department of Land and Natural Resources. This is the case asking whether an online commercial fishing permit application triggers environmental review under Hawaii’s Environmental Policy Act, Ch. 343.
Several individuals and environmental groups brought suit against the State of
California fish, not raisins, are the subject of a recent decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The case is Marilley v. Bonham and the opinion can be found here.
In Marilley, California’s vessel registration fees were challenged by non-resident commercial fishermen who argued, as a class, that charging nonresidents higher
My partner Gregory W. Kugle and I were pleased to present at our fourth annual Hawaii State Bar Association Real Property and Financial Services Section Real Estate Litigation Update for 2016. Greg covered the big cases from 2016, including the Thirty Meter Telescope, the Haleakala Telescope, Koa Ridge and Hoopili. The topics covered and links
Deviating from our usual fare of ocean and land related cases, we wade into a constitutional thicket and report on Dannenberg v. State of Hawaii. The opinion from the Supreme Court is here.
Judge James Dannenberg (retired) is the lead plaintiff in a class action brought on behalf of:
All employees (and
It is a rare day that this dirt lawyer, with an ocean-related blog, gets to blog about environmental law AND the ocean environment. Dear readers – today is the day! In a case certainly bound for the Hawaii Supreme Court, the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) held that aquarium fish permit applications was not sufficient
Walk softly.
Walk softly, stranger.
The land on which you stand is Holy ground …
a place of unspoiled beauty, colored by the hand of God.
And you who stand upon this land will someday too
remember sun-washed sands and quiet days, and
moments crystallized in time.
Walk softly, stranger,
for you stand on Holy
Hawaii’s position as the 50th State provides an interesting vantage to view the governance of those territorial areas that are within the United States but are not a state. Since the late 1890’s, the United States has been vexed by the metaphysical question: how do we classify those persons living in geographic areas under the