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…

Thanks to Professor Shelley Saxer, Anthony Della Pelle, Esq. and Kristen Renfro, Esq. for presenting at the American Bar Assn’s Section of Litigation Real Estate, Condemnation, and Trust Litigation Roundtable on Property Damage Claims After Disasters.
The cases mentioned on the call are linked below:

• City of Oroville v. The Superior Court of

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Fires, superstorms, cataclysmic floods seem to abound across the nation. Property damage claims abound, but how should claims against public utility or governmental actors be handled? Are there strategic implications for bringing claims against the utility? What are the practical issues?
Answers to these questions and more will be provided on a free webinar (conference…

As it often the case in the law, when you peel back one layer of an onion, you get more and more and more.
In this case, after writing yesterday’s post on the three judge panel reviewing Governor Ige’s Emergency Proclamation for TMT, we wondered what other three judge panels exist in Hawaii law.
We…

As it often the case in the law, when you peel back one layer of an onion, you get more and more and more.
In this case, after writing yesterday’s post on the three judge panel reviewing Governor Ige’s Emergency Proclamation for TMT, we wondered what other three judge panels exist in Hawaii law.
We…

While we are slowly migrating this blog as part of a rebranding, we could not pass up the opportunity to delve into one of the legal aspects of the ongoing discourse over the Thirty Meter Telescope (artistic rendering below).
Our friends at Civil Beat published an article about a TMT-related hearing on Monday, July 22,…

The Hawaii Supreme Court conducted oral arguments last week in the case of Umberger v. Department of Land and Natural Resources.  This is the case asking whether an online commercial fishing permit application triggers environmental review under Hawaii’s Environmental Policy Act, Ch. 343.
Several individuals and environmental groups brought suit against the State of Hawaii’s…