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Continue reading →: Where’s The Wai?One island. A government agency meant to protect the ʻaina. Over two decades of case law. Maui’s fight to control its water meets a permitting system built for corporate success. This is how Mahi Pono isn’t keeping it pono.
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Continue reading →: We Keep That Promise Today (By a Margin of One)By a slim majority, SCOTUS upheld birthright citizenship. Questions of how we got to this point and what happens next can be answered by looking at the political theory, history, and law.
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Continue reading →: The Automation Anxiety Engine: Fear-Based Marketing and the Ethics of Legal AI
AI is changing the world around us — the legal profession is no different. Questions of ethics, accountability, accuracy, and continued need for human oversight abound. So what does this all mean? Will my job be taken by a robot?
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Continue reading →: Panic! At the Courthouse… Almost (The Paralegal Edition)
Being a new paralegal can be a lot. Sometimes it may seem like the entire professional world is screaming NO in your face, but one foot in front of the other will take you further than you ever imagined.
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Continue reading →: The Jargon Glossary
Let’s be honest, sometimes the blog meant to help you understand the law is confusing. It happens. Jargon is unavoidable sometimes. Here’s a Jargon Glossary to help with that confusion.
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Continue reading →: Representation for All — Terms and Conditions Apply
Equal protection under the law— sure, it sounds great in theory, but putting it into practice is a whole different can of worms. In the political and legal environment today, it may be nearly impossible to achieve. The Founding Fathers envisioned the U.S. Supreme Court as the neutral arbiter of…
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Continue reading →: When Your Name Is Legally Someone Else’s Problem
Patagonia v. Pattie Gonia, trademark law, and what happens when IP meets the sequined frontier of free expression Shakespeare asked “What’s in a name?”, the answer: apparently more than you’d think. Today, we’ll be going over the law on trademarks, intellectual property, parody, and how it impacts identity. Lace up…
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Continue reading →: Your Land, Your ʻOhana:
Changes in inheritance for Native Hawaiian families and their homesteads. How Hawai’i is slowly righting historic wrongs.
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Continue reading →: Hawai’i vs. Citizens United
Hawaiʻi just signed a law that the state’s own Attorney General said is probably unconstitutional. That’s not necessarily a problem — sometimes the point is the argument itself
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Continue reading →: The Green Fee Goes to Court…….. And the Court Can’t Quite Decide
What happens when environmental activism meets corporate greed? Hawai’i’s Green Tax faces pushback from cruise industry.
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