Hawaii Related Topics 
JURIST
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agreed to re-hear the court’s 2023 three-judge panel decision Thursday which struck down a ban on butterfly knives in Hawaii. They have been banned in Hawaii for 30 years and are subject to restrictions in numerous states as well as outright banned in many countries around the world.
JURIST
MARCH 22, 2023
The Hawaii Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Monday passed a bill that directs the Prevent Suicide Hawaii Task Force (PSHTF) to further focus its efforts on preventing suicide in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations. ” In Hawaii, suicide is the most common cause of fatal injuries.
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HowAppealing
OCTOBER 24, 2023
“Green nominates judge, private lawyer to Hawaii Supreme Court”: Dan Nakaso of The Honolulu Star-Advertiser has this report. And Chad Blair of Honolulu Civil Beat reports that “ Green Nominates Ginoza, Devens To Hawaii Supreme Court; The governor said he looked beyond race and gender to consider background and experience.”
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
“Hawaii top court upholds gun laws, criticizes US Supreme Court; Hawaii Supreme Court says it disagrees with U.S. ” And Jennifer Sinco Kelleher of The Associated Press reports that “ Hawaii’s high court cites ‘The Wire’ in rebuke of US Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights.”
JURIST
JANUARY 25, 2023
The Hawaii Circuit Court of the Third Circuit Tuesday exonerated Albert “Ian” Schweitzer’s 2000 conviction for the 1991 second-degree murder, kidnapping and sexual assault in the first degree of Dana Ireland after newly discovered evidence. The new scientific evidence is clear — Mr. Schweitzer did not commit this crime.
Law 360
APRIL 17, 2024
Hawaii's attorney general on Wednesday released findings from the first report of a three-part investigation into how state and county governments responded to the wildfires that ignited on the island of Maui last year, decimating the historic town of Lahaina and leaving more than 100 people dead.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
“Hawaii Rightly Rejects Supreme Court’s Gun Nonsense; In a scathing takedown, the state’s highest court declared ‘there is no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public’”: Columnist Francis Wilkinson has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
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