Geography matters, but so do governments. If you live in a place that flies the American flag, should you be entitled to all of the privileges that are shared by all the residents of lands where that flag is flown?
No, says the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Citizenship belongs to those
Ah, the bloggers's dream: juxtaposing DC Showdown with Fisheries Law in the title of your post.
On a more serious note, domestic fisheries are a $5B component of our national economy with certainly more impact locally in those ports where fish are landed.
The governing statute which sets out federal regulation of fisheries is the
As a random quirk of our law practice, we have done some work with the Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission. Not surprisingly, the Commission's laws and regulations were challenged after the Citizen's United case and today, we have the Ninth Circuit's take on Hawaii's election laws in light of Citizen's United. It upheld Hawaii's election laws
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser had a front page story today on a bill passed by the Legislature proposing an amendment to Hawaii's Uniform Information Practices Act, Hawaii Revised Statutes Ch. 92F.
The bill, H.B. 287, underwent re-writes throughout the session. The version that passed, and is awaiting Governor signature or veto, is:
We are headed to the Big Easy tonight for the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation Annual Conference.
The Real Estate Litigation Committee is pleased to present a seminar of complex claims resolution, entitled When the Levee Breaks – Resolving Complex Claims; Lessons of the Deepwater Horizon, Katrina and More. Our panelists
The Federal Judiciary just released its business report for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014.
Where does the District of Hawaii, conceptually rendered above, stack up?
For civil cases, in terms of median time from filing to trial, D. Haw. has a median time interval of 15.5 months. The average median
Do you own property along the rail guideway?Have you received a letter from a City right-of-way agent using terms like "fair market value" and "just compensation"?Do you know your rights to relocation?We are going to discuss these questions and more on Thursday, March 5, 2015, from 6:00 – 7:15 p.m. at the Farrington High School
Just got back from San Francisco and the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law 101 seminar.
Together with Dwight Merriam of Connecticut and Brad Kuhn of California, we presented on the “Assemblage” doctrine is set out in the Supreme Court’s decision in Olson v. U.S. and book-ended by the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S.
Special shout-out to the Hawaii Paralegal Association for inviting me to join them at their monthly meeting to talk about Eminent Domain law. It isn’t often that folks ASK to learn about the ins and outs of eminent domain law, especially in Hawaii so we were pleased to help share a little of an area
