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
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
The Hawaii State Bar Association just released its statistics for the Hawaii license renewals for 2016. It is an interesting snapshot of the legal profession in Hawaii and specifically the demographics of attorneys.
Did you know that Hawaii has 93 judges? 903 government attorneys?
Hawaii has 4,858 active attorneys and 2,948 inactive attorneys. With
This blog usually doesn't cover criminal matters unless they involve piracy or the ocean environment. But, last year's case about the meaning of the word "vessel" has us on the watch for cases involving, well…, grammar.
The Supreme Court handed down a decision today which attempted to address what Congress means when it lists a
Last year, Gregory W. Kugle and I provided our annual Hawaii real estate litigation update for the Hawaii State Bar Association's Real Property and Financial Services Section. The outline, with links to the cases, is provided below and a video of the presentation is conveniently on YouTube. So, consider yourself updated on what happened in
In preparing for our 2015 presentation, we discovered that the 2014 version wasn't posted to our blog yet. And, thanks to the HSBA Real Property Section, we even have video!
Enjoy and stay tuned for video of tomorrow's presentation. Aloha.