By now it’s no secret that the lawyer representing the Hawai‘i State Teachers Association has engaged in a curious and confusing legal strategy in the union’s high-profile labor dispute with the state. But attorney Herb Takahashi’s bewildering tactics are nothing
By now it’s no secret that the lawyer representing the Hawai‘i State Teachers Association has engaged in a curious and confusing legal strategy in the union’s high-profile labor dispute with the state.
But attorney Herb Takahashi’s bewildering tactics are nothing new, a court order issued earlier this year in an unrelated arbitration case suggests.
In that case, Takahashi filed a series of “premature and unnecessary” motions, according to the judge’s ruling, that at best, caused confusion and, at worst, cost the state (and Takahashi’s client) a lot of money. The motions may have been an attempt to boost attorney’s fees, the judge said.
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