Legal Opinion
HRPT Properties Trust v. Lingle
District Court, D. Hawaii
Decided December 23, 2009No. Civ. 09-00375 SOM/KSCPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order denying plaintiffs and DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
SUSAN OKI MOLLWAY, Chief Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
This court is asked to decide whether a 2009 Hawaii law defining a term in existing commercial and industrial leases is constitutional. Plaintiff HRPT Properties Trust, together with its affiliates, owns commercial properties in Hawaii that it leases pursuant to long-term leases that require appraisers to set “fair and reasonable” annual rent if the parties fail to agree on rent. HRPT challenges the new law, which purports to define that lease term, as violative of the United…
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