Plaintiff Andrew Walden, Editor of Hawaii Free Press, filed an action to obtain copies of the check registers and income/expense statements of three limited liability[...]

League of Women Voters of Honolulu and Common Cause challenged whether the process for adopting Act 84 (2018) complied with the Hawaii Constitution. The lawsuit[...]

Maui News submitted a memorandum supporting the unsealing of court-ordered mental competency reports filed in State v. Ashley Wellman, Cr. No. 2CPC-17-909. In October 2016,[...]

Edward Wagner found a 2013 Courthouse News Service article describing a Hawaii court case involving allegations of unlawful conduct by GEICO. But when he attempted[...]

On February 22, 2018, Civil Beat requested the arbitration decision concerning Darren Cachola. In September 2014, video surfaced that showed Cachola repeatedly beating a woman.[...]

Nick Grube, a reporter at Honolulu Civil Beat, challenged an order entered in State. v. Ahn, Cr. No. 15-1-1338, that sealed all records and docket[...]

On July 31, 2017, Civil Beat requested the name, position, and compensation for Honolulu Police Department employees. The City & County of Honolulu planned to[...]

Honolulu Civil Beat challenged the Honolulu Civil Service Commission’s closure of contested case proceedings to the public without following the procedural and substantive First Amendment[...]

The Law Center objected to the closure of the courtroom for a pretrial release hearing in United States v. Anil Uskanli, 17-MJ-563 BMK. After the[...]

Honolulu Civil Beat and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser challenged the Honolulu Police Commission's policy to close contested case proceedings to the public without following the procedural[...]