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
Waiting for Chief Justice Recktenwald’s speech. Excited to hear about Kona Judiciary complex and more.
Of late, residents in Kailua have bemoaned the state of public facilities to cope with an increasing tourist population. Public facilities created haphazardly over the last century can easily be overwhelmed with the increased traffic stemming from the ease of information about those facilities. "If you build it, they will come" gives way
This is a bit afield of our usual fare of condemnation, Jones Act and maintenance and cure cases. But, since it is the end of the year, we thought you may want to participate in the Coast Guard's Video of the Year contest. Vote here.
Being a former cutterman, I'm a bit partial
We came across this video on the National Park Service’s attempt to obtain a “ground water management area designation” for the Keauhou Aquifer System Area on Hawaii Island. The petition and supporting exhibits can be found here.
The County of Hawaii objects to such a designation which would keep the regulation of the