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· 5/8/1986

Gibb v. Spiker

Citations

  • 718 P.2d 1076
  • 68 Haw. 432
  • 1986 Haw. LEXIS 82

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the Chief of the Honolulu Police Department was not an agency because he did not adjudicate cases or promulgate rules
  • holding that a police chief was not an “agency” under HRS § 91-1 because the police chief was not promulgating or enforcing any rules in his decision not to rehire a former police officer
  • holding that “The decision not to rehire [the former police chief] based on an informal, unwritten policy against hiring anyone under investigation for possible criminal wrongdoing was a purely internal management function not within the scope of HRS § 91-1(4).”
  • holding that “The decision not to rehire [the former police chief] based on an informal, unwritten policy against hiring anyone under investigation for possible criminal wrongdoing was a purely internal management function not within the scope of HRS § 91-1(4
  • re-employment of police officer suspected of criminal conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Lum, Padgett, Hayashi, Wakatsuki, Intermediate, Heen, Place, Nakamura

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