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Federal appeals court upholds Hawaii statute limiting open carry of firearms in public

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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday upheld Hawaii’s firearm-licensing law , which restricts open-carry licenses to those who can demonstrate “the urgency or the need” to carry a firearm, that they are of good moral character, and are “engaged in the protection of life and property.”.

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“Woman Struck at Casino Wins Suit, But $1 Million Award Too Much”

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” A paper addressing how Hawaii could gender-neutralize its statutes suggests using the term “lift” instead. . — * Trigger warning for sexist terms — the plaintiff was injured by a piece of machinery that the opinion repeatedly describes as a “manlift.”

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Why is Connecticut Charging Inmates a Daily Fee for Their Imprisonment?

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Meanwhile, every state in the union except Hawaii allows for the collection of daily “pay-to-stay” fees, and all states make use of prison labor programs in which inmates are compelled to work public and private jobs for mere cents an hour, if they are paid at all.

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US Supreme Court declines to hear oil company petitions to move climate change cases to federal court

JURIST

Each petition focuses on two federal statutes regarding the transfer of a case to federal court: 28 U.S.C. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii , Chevron Corp. 1441(a) and 28 U.S.C. 1441(a) allows a party to remove the case to federal court if they could have first filed their complaint in federal court, known as original jurisdiction.

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Environmental Rights in State Constitutions

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

However, the constitutions of six states do have provisions with explicit environmental rights – Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. (The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.).

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Illegal firearm possession and courtroom closures

SCOTUSBlog

United States , Melvyn Gear, an Australian citizen who resides in Hawaii on an H-1B visa, asks the justices to decide whether Section 922(g)(5)(B) also requires proof of knowledge of collateral law. These and other petitions of the week are below: Ham v. Issue : Whether a district court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. Williams v.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

That changed on October 18, 2021 when the Federal District Court for the District of Hawaii handed down a decision that construed key terms in the statute. Note that EKRA’s reach is broader than the Anti-Kickback Statute, which applies only to “federal healthcare programs” — e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, etc. 18 U.S.C. §

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