UFO Chuting filed its Reply Briefs on their cert petition which will be the subject of a Supreme Court conference on November 25, 2008. At the conference, the Court will decide whether to grant the petition or let Hawaii's ban on parasailing stand despite its conflict with federal coastwise licenses.
UFO Reply to the Department of Justice Opposition Brief
UFO Reply to the State of Hawaii's Opposition Brief
The opposition briefing is also available for download:
The State of Hawaii's Brief in Opposition is here.
The Solicitor General's office filed its Brief in Opposition is here.
My colleagues, Robert Thomas and Christi-Anne Kudo Chock, and I filed an amicus brief on behalf of Hawaii's Ocean Tourism Coalition in support of the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari that UFO Chuting filed in the case of UFO Chuting, Inc. v. Smith. My original post is here. The Ninth Circuit opinion is here. My post on UFO's Petition is here. And, the cert petition itself is here.
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