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Does the government's killing of animals violate the National Environmental Protection Act?

Posted on January 11, 2008
That question was raised in a federal case brought by In Defense of Animals. But it wasn't resolved. The 9th Circuit dismissed the case as moot yesterday because all the animals at issue in the case had already been killed, as reported by University of San Diego Law Professor Shaun Martin...

A glance at the national legal scene . . .

Posted on January 11, 2008
Christy Hardin Smith doesn't have good news for civil libertarians:Between The Briefs: Updates On The Rule Of Law

Attorney-physician Terry Shintani to help you keep New Year's resolutions

Posted on January 09, 2008
He'll speak on healthy eating (eat more, weigh less!) on Jan. 12 (O`ahu) and Jan. 15 (Maui):http://www.vsh.org/events_calendar.htm

Series of one-to-one talks violate Sunshine Law

Posted on January 04, 2008
Here's the .html version of the Intermediate Court of Appeals opinion in Right to Know Committee v. City Council:http://www.state.hi.us/jud/opinions/ica/2007/ica27996.htmHere's the .pdf version:http://www.state.hi.us/jud/opinions/ica/2007/ica27996.pdfThe ICA endorsed Office of Information Practices Op...

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Attorney: Hawai`i taxpayers unknowingly support unnecessary killing of dogs and cats

Posted on December 31, 2007
Stanford-trained attorney Nathan J. Winograd says that no-kill animal shelters should be the norm everywhere in America. Yet Hawai`i apparently has only four no-kill shelters, and none of them are designated as one of the official animal shelters that receive county funding...

"Bigger Than Sports: Why Title IX Matters"

Posted on December 31, 2007
Bigger Than Sports: Why Title IX MattersPatsy Mink had always dreamed of becoming a doctor, but none of the 20 medical schools she applied to accepted women. Edith Green wanted to become an electrical engineer, but her family told her "not to be silly...

Christmas Eve message from Keep It Kailua: no room at the beach

Posted on December 25, 2007
Keep It Kailua of Windward O`ahu sarcastically responds to last month's Supreme Court ruling striking down the City & County of Honolulu's regulatory scheme for camping permits.Maybe we should have the homeless sent up a tent city in Kailua. Wow, a homeless shelter on Kailua Beach...

Tutu's visitation rights struck down

Posted on December 21, 2007
Today's Star-Bulletin article:High court rules on child visitation; Having grandparents' rights trump parents' is unconstitutionalDec. 13 Supreme Court opinion:Doe v. DoeUnconstititutional statute:�571-46.3 Grandparents' visitation rights; petition; notice; order.

Major article on drug courts in USA Today

Posted on December 21, 2007
Via Friends of the Maui Drug Court:"Drug court offers offenders alternatives"

ACLU Executive Director Vanessa Chong on "Hot Seat"

Posted on December 19, 2007
The long-time leader of the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawai`i discussed same-sex marriage, suspicionless drug testing of public teachers, and suspicionless searches of student lockers at the Honolulu Advertiser website today.

Maui County wins lawsuit filed by Maui Vacation Rental Association (MVRA)

Posted on December 19, 2007
From Maui County:Press ReleaseDecember 18, 2007FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEADDITIONAL CONTACT:Jane LovellDeputy Corporation Counsel, County of MauiPh. 270-7740JUDGE DISMISSES TVR LAWSUIT AGAINST COUNTY OF MAUI, PLANNING DIRECTORHONOLULU- On December 17, 2007, Judge J...

Congressman Abercrombie says college football's BCS system is unconstitutional

Posted on December 19, 2007
The BCS v. The U.S. Constitution:Abercrombie said a system that limits automatic berths to six conferences "is restraint of trade. The automatic qualifiers are still taking care of themselves. I'm saying regardless of what good intentions may be behind this, it's restraint of trade...

University of Hawai`i football team has a chaplain

Posted on December 17, 2007
In his lengthy tribute to Hawai`i Coach June Jones in the Honolulu Advertiser, Stephen Tsai notes in passing that the football team has a chaplain.

Phyllis Norton Cooper, Esq. - 1915-2007

Posted on December 15, 2007
Cooper, a former Hawai`i resident, overcame gender bias in the legal profession. She and her husband represented Sirhan Sirhan, among other notorious clients.From the L.A. Times:USC alumna became a lawyer in the 1930s despite gender bias

Roll With the Changes - Kevin Cronin to run Office of Elections

Posted on December 13, 2007
Kevin Cronin - not the lead singer of REO Speedwagon, but the attorney from the Wisconsin Public Service Commission - will run the State's Office of Elections.

Maui Meadows building-height appeal is moot . . .

Posted on December 12, 2007
. . . but not frivolous.

Hawai`i sentencing issues highlighted on national blawg

Posted on December 12, 2007
How Appealing:"Sentencing phase opens in murder trial; Jurors who convicted Patrick Lorenzo will decide whether he can ever be paroled": The Honolulu Star-Bulletin today contains an article that begins, "The 12 jurors who convicted Patrick Lorenzo of killing an off-duty deputy sheriff returned yesterday in the first hearing ever in which a jury -- not a judge -- could impose the state's strictest penalty of life imprisonment without parole...

Former lawmaker Brian Schatz joins the blogosphere

Posted on December 12, 2007
Hawaii's Brian Schatz on politics and public affairs

Compliance with EPA sewage mandate to cost City more than $1.2 billion

Posted on December 11, 2007
Mayor Hannemann will fight the EPA.

Fight over Maui vacation rentals goes back to federal court on Dec. 19

Posted on December 11, 2007
From inversecondemnation.com:Update on Federal Lawsuit on Maui Vacation RentalsThe case pits the Maui Vacation Rental Association (MVRA) against the County of Maui. The MVRA is asking Judge Michael Seabright (a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and a George W...

Hawai`i's Proposed Shield Law

Posted on December 06, 2007

Coast Guards's public-service announcement about Maui Security Zone

Posted on December 06, 2007

The politics of dancing

Posted on December 06, 2007
Loss for Maui Dance Advocates:The LCwins again! In slightly less than one hour, Judge Joseph E. Cardoza dismissed the appeal by Maui Community College student Ramoda Anand and the Maui Dance Advocates of the Maui County Liquor Commission?s April 2006 decision not to change the county?s rules regarding dancing...

Who's to blame for isles' affordable-housing woes?

Posted on December 04, 2007
Selfish, short-sighted environmentalists - "[S]ome in the community just do not want any development. They tend to have a home and means of living and do not need additional serves or housing to accommodate them. They have become accustom to small populations and not sharing resources with too many people...

Colorful Alex Kozinski takes over as 9th Circuit's chief judge

Posted on December 03, 2007
Kozinski and Schroeder (Photo: Office of the Circuit Executive)Kozinski is one of the few legal writers who frequently uses contractions in formal documents and one of the rare snowboarding judges. He succeeds former 9th Circuit Chief Judge Mary Schroeder, whose seven-year term began in December 2000.

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