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
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
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
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.
Full disclosure: most of my practice involves LAND and not the ocean. We live on an island after all.
In any event, on Friday, my partner Greg Kugle and I will be providing our annual Real Estate Litigation Update to the HSBA's Real Property and Financial Services Section. This is about our third time
October 1st and the Supreme Court just granted hearing in several cases. Of note, to this humble island attorney, is the case of Puerto Rico v. Valle. Those pesky Insular Cases….(my posts here and here).
This case arises from a criminal prosecution in Puerto Rico. A criminal defendant was convicted of federal
The Ninth Circuit struck down a challenge to the constitutionality of the Jones Act or Merchant Marine Act of 1920. The case was Novak v. United States and the opinion can be found here.
The litigated component of the Jones Act (rest easy merchant mariners, you didn't lose your worker compensation causes of action)