September 2014 PDF
September 2014
New & Noteworthy
Kealakehe Pilikia: The County of Hawai`i is facing mounting pressure to stop its practice of dumping treated effluent from the Kealakehe sewage treatment plant into a disposal pit near the Kona coast. As reported in the July issue of Environment … Continued
Wespac to Investigate, Discipline Itself Over Green Sea Turtle Delisting Petition
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has directed the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Wespac) to investigate the extent to which federal grant funds might have been misused by council staff members involved in preparing the pending petition to remove … Continued
Board Talk
Former North Shore Convalescent Home May Soon Shelter Sex Trafficking Victims It was a difficult choice: Provide a home for a few dozen underage sex trafficking victims or a campus for a new intermediate school for as many as 200 … Continued
Old Pacts With Waikiki Hotels Confound Enforcement of Ban on Commercial Use
For the more than a year, Douglas Meller has been complaining to the state Department of Land and Natural Resources about the dozens – and sometimes hundreds – of unoccupied beach chairs he regularly sees on the beaches fronting Fort … Continued
Storm Iselle Puts to Rest Debate Over Threat Potential of Albizia
By the time it reached Hawai`i island, Hurricane Iselle was barely hanging on to its status as a hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 74 miles per hour. And yet it managed to turn large swaths of the rural district … Continued
Hawai`i Plaintiffs Await Court Action On Complaints Of Injury from DBCP
Dibromochloropropane was invented in Hawai`i, and it continued to be used on pineapple fields in the state for years after the Environmental Protection Agency banned it elsewhere in the United States. Despite that, there seems to have been just one … Continued
Claims of Harm from DBCP Kept Alive in Lawsuit before State Supreme Court
A lawsuit filed nearly two decades ago is finally going to be heard by the Hawai`i Supreme Court. And although the case has received little local publicity, it is part of a series of lawsuits around the country that pit … Continued
‘A Brief Description’
What follows is the synopsis of the Patrickson case before the Hawai`i Supreme Court prepared by Judiciary personnel: Litigation in this case involves the nematicide dibromochloropropane (DBCP), which Plaintiffs alleged caused damage to their reproductive systems. The instant case has … Continued
In 30 Years of Litigation, Only Once Has a Jury Heard Case on the Merits
On her web page, attorney Andrea E. Neuman boasts of her knock-out court victories in several prominent lawsuits brought against her corporate clients, including Dole Food. Neuman, a partner with the white-shoe New York law firm of Gibson, Dunn & … Continued