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United States of America v. Brandon Inada
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of materials containing child porno. 18 U.S.C. 2252 provides in part: (a) Any person who— (1) knowingly transports or ships using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means including by computer or mails, any...
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( 10-29-2025 - HI)

United States of America v. Jeffrey L. Goss, aka Loran Gross
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with r manufacture and possession with intent to distribute 100 or more marijuana plants, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B); two counts of felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1); and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, in vio...
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( 10-19-2025 - HI)

Warren Yoshimoto, et al. v. Alaska Airlines, Inc.; Alaska Air Group, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawaii consumer law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued to stop the merger of Alaska Air and Hawaii Airlines. Plaintiffs, a group including airline passengers and former travel agents, seek to enjoin Alaska Airlines’s acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines. The district court dismissed Plaintiffs’ complaint without leave to amend for lack of standing, and it denied Pla...
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( 10-19-2025 - HI)

The State of Hawai'i v. Craig Stephen MacDonald
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a felony. "The basic elements of procedural due process are notice and an opportunity to be heard at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner." Mauna Kea Anaina Hou v. Bd. of Land & Nat. Res., 136 Hawai‘i 376, 389, 363 P.3d 224, 237 (2015)...
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( 10-19-2025 - HI)

United States of America v. Haitem Taylor Abid
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud by wire, radio or television in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, which provides: Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmit...
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( 10-19-2025 - HI)

State of Hawai'i v. John Naki
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony abuse of a family member. The State of Hawaii claimed that defendant's two prior abuse of family or household member (Abuse) offenses, charged in a single complaint resulting in a single judgment of conviction, constituted one prior conviction rather than the two prior convictions required for felo...
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( 10-17-2025 - HI)

United States of America v. Ryan Holden Baxter
Honlulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making interstate threats in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which provides: (c) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five yea...
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( 10-16-2025 - HI)

State of Hawaii v. Jane Doe
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree attempted murder. Honolulu police arrested an 18-year-old woman for allegedly stabbing a 13-year-old girl at Beretania Community Park....
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( 10-09-2025 - HI)

United States of America v. Robert Kinoshita
Honolulu, Hawaii, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. 21:841A=CD.F CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - SELL, DISTRIBUTE, OR DISPENSE, Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(l) and 841(b)(l)(A) (1)...
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( 10-08-2025 - HI)

United States of America v. Jillian Pecika, aka Mango
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs....
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( 08-08-2025 - HI)

Donna Darlene Berry v. Social Security Administration
Honolulu, Hawaii social security disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the denial by HHS of her application for Social Security: DIWC/DIWW benefits....
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( 08-08-2025 - HI)

Helene Kaiwi v. Community Clinic of Maui, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawaii personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a class action theory. ...
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( 07-29-2025 - HI)

United States of America v. Eugene Raymond Hall
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance....
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( 07-29-2025 - HI)

United States of America v. Marcel Tamaititahio
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to import drugs....
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( 07-29-2025 - HI)

Chunming Wang v. Estela Derr, et al.
Honolulu, Hawaii immigration law lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking a writ of habeas to release INS detainee....
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( 07-29-2025 - HI)

United States of America v. Maliu Tauheluhelu
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug Trafficking And Illegal Gambling Charges Oahu Man Sentenced to Over 16 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking And Illegal Gambling Charges Maliu...
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( 01-24-2025 - HI)

Juliana Alfieri v. United States Automobile Association
Honolulu, Hawaii insurance lawyer represented represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach of contract theory. * * * PROCEDURAL LAW. DISMISSAL OF APPEAL. The case involves the dismissal of an appeal with prejudice based on a stipulation between the parties under Hawaii Rules of Appellate Procedure Rule 42(a), where the parties agreed to bear their own attorneys' fees ...
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( 01-06-2025 - HI)

Child Support Enforcement Agency, State of Hawaii v. I.S.
Honolulu, Hawaii family law lawyer represented the Defendant on a child support question. Mother is a responsible parent[2] under Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) Chapter 576E. On August 5, 2021, she asked the Child Support Enforcement Agency (CSEA) for a "modification of child support due to income change." The Office of Child Support Hearings (OCSH) held hearings on Janu...
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( 11-13-2024 - HI)

United States of America v. Daniel Avendano-Silva and Yesica Villanueava-Martinez
Honolulu, Hawaii immigration criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with being in the United States without authorization. Petitioners came separately to the United States from Mexico as minors. Both entered without legal authorization and remain here illegally, having been in the United States for decades. They have three children born in the ...
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( 10-25-2024 - HI)

Denise Eiland v. Island Paradise Investments Limited Partnership
Honolulu, Hawaii civil rights employment discrimination lawyer represented the Plaintiff. Employment discrimination law prohibits employers from making employment decisions based on certain characteristics, including race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information. This includes hiring, firing, promotions, pay, benefits, training, and othe...
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( 10-18-2024 - HI)

United States of America v. Reinald Yamada
Honolulu, Hawaii conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute meth. ...
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( 10-18-2024 - HI)

United States of America v. Henry K. Lii
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possession of Methamphetamine and Firearm ...
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( 09-17-2024 - HI)

United States of America v. Alexander Yuk Ching Ma
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to Commit Espionage ...
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( 09-11-2024 - HI)

United States of America v. Brent Leroy Gaston
Honolulu, Hawaii criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempted Child Enticement ...
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( 08-09-2024 - HI)

Herbert R. Kasnetz v. Deborah A. Kasnetz
Honolulu, Hawaii divorce lawyers represented the Plaintiff and the Defendant in a dissolution action. ...
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( 07-23-2024 - HI)

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