Excuse the break from our latest amicus brief or a digest on the latest longshore case from the Fifth Circuit, but today we go global.
I'm in Kyoto for the Inter-Pacific Bar Association annual meeting, so stand by for some pictures from Kyoto's International Conference Center and other photos taken during my meanderings.
Today, we'll see
The U.S. Coast Guard has released its “Incident Specific Preparedness Review” for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. Fox is reporting that this report suggests the Administration slowed some of the flow of information from the responders.
The Commandant of the Coast Guard’s approval memorandum states:
On February I, 20II, I received the
Rebecca, at www.recordonappeal.com, is live blogging the Senate confirmation hearing for David Louie, Esq. Follow the action below.
Aloha and welcome to the latest blawg to grace Hawaii's legal community. Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing's Litigation Practice Group has launched www.hawaiilitigation.com. Not surprisingly, their initial posts are full of pearls of wisdom for the business community generally and the legal community specifically.
Louise Ing's post on courtroom attire was spot on and
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:
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
Attended the memorial service at the U.S. Courthouse for the District of Hawaii. The federal judges and magistrates paid homage to this icon of the federal bench.
The Vermont Law Review has published an article authored by me and my Damon Key colleagues (and fellow law bloggers) Robert H. Thomas and Tred Eyerly, Of Woodchucks and Prune Yards: A View of Judicial Takings From the Trenches, 35 Vt. L. Rev. 437 (2010)(Download here)
Our introduction is a reference