Alan B. Burdick v. Morris Takushi, Director of Elections, State of Hawaii John W. Waihee, Lieutenant Governor, State of Hawaii

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• holding that to justify Pullman abstention, “a definitive ruling on the state issue must potentially obviate the need for constitutional adjudication by the federal court”
• noting in support of abstention that “[i]f the Hawaii state courts were to 19 decide that Hawaii law permits write-in voting . . . then we may presume that Hawaii election 20 officials would administer the election laws accordingly.”
• finding Pullman abstention warranted in as-applied 15 challenge

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