Every year, the Hawaii State Bar Association’s Real Property and Financial Services Sections asks my partner Greg Kugle and me to present a Litigation Update for its members. We review the recent national and Hawaii court decisions impacting real estate, ranging from land use litigation, real estate closings, foreclosures, CC&R interpretation and more.
Our presentation
Our most viewed post was on the topic of bananas. Strange fare for a law blog, but yes, there is law on bananas that are on my neighbor’s tree but that are on my side of the property line. Good fences make good neighbors (Mr. Frost may disagree), but free bananas mean banana
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