Legal matters of maritime concern in Hawaii, Oceania, and beyond.
Wow, today is a civil procedure day at the Ninth Circuit. First, it issued a decision which only a first year law student would love on “minimum contacts” with a State to subject out of state defendants to the State’s court system.
Second, is a case on the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) with Russia. The…
Justice Alito will be speaking tonight at the Hawaii Supreme Court and we will be trying a live blog. Follow the conversation:
The Coast Guard published a Programmatice Environmental Assessment for the Nationwide Use of High Frequency and Ultra High Frequency SONAR. The publication notice is here. Comments can be posted at www.regulations.gov. The Environmental Assessment is here. The State of Hawaii is conducting a consistency determination per the Coastal Zone Management Act, see …
Damon Key publishes a quarterly newsletter for our clients, sent via snail and e-mail. The current issue can be downloaded here.
I co-wrote an article with my partner Anna H. Oshiro on a new case from Hawaii’s Intermediate Court of Appeals that guts insurance coverage for construction companies.
This issue addresses a dramatic development in…
Finishing up this series of posts relating to Justice Alito (who is visiting Hawaii next week), it seemed appropriate to post about some of the opinions he has authored that are off-topic from my blog (or Robert’s, Tred’s or Rebecca’s).
On the Constitution and the 14th Amendment, McDonald v. City of Chicago is …
New marine insurance case from Second Circuit Court of Appeals. It is unpublished and strictly based on New York insurance law, but it arose in the maritime context (cargo damage), hence this post.
The case is Pactrans Air & Seas, Inc. v. New York Marine & Gen. Ins. Co., 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 14971 and…
Before his appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Alito has a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He doesn't have many opinions relating to admiralty or maritime law from his time on the circuit court, but he does have a few.
Court of Appeals Opinions
Pennsylvania Tidewater Dock Co v. Director…
Justice Samuel Alito will be a Jurist-in-Residence at the University of Hawaii Law School this month. This is a longstanding program that brings Supreme Court justices, along with other senior federal judges, to the school for a week of lectures, symposia and other exchanges. I have been fortunate to have met or heard Justice Ginsburg…
Interesting article on CivilBeat today with a Honolulu City Zoning Inspector stating that President Obama's stay at a Kailua beachfront home violated City zoning ordinances.
Robert Thomas has an in-depth perspective on this issue over at www.inversecondemnation.com. The Zoning Board of Appeals and the City's official position differ with the zoning inspector's opinion about…
