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
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Hawaii Supreme Court – State Retirees Right to Health Benefits Requires Trial
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 their dependent-beneficiaries)…
Hawaii Appeals Court Says Permit Applications for Aquarium Fish Not "Actions" Triggering Hawaii Env. Policy Act
It is a rare day that this dirt lawyer, with an ocean-related blog, gets to blog about environmental law AND the ocean environment. Dear readers – today is the day! In a case certainly bound for the Hawaii Supreme Court, the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) held that aquarium fish permit applications was not sufficient…