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· 5/11/1987

HOH Corp. v. Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Board

Citations

  • 736 P.2d 1271
  • 69 Haw. 135
  • 1987 Haw. LEXIS 74

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that an agency \lacks power to pass upon constitutionality of a statute\
  • recognizing that an agency “lacks power to pass upon constitutionality of a statute”
  • noting that “an administrative agency may always determine questions about its own jurisdiction” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)
  • stating that the administrative agency is not \qualified to adjudicate the propriety of its own action\
  • stating that the administrative agency is not “qualified to adjudicate the propriety of its own action”
  • noting that an administrative agency \generally lacks power to pass upon constitutionality of a statute. The law has long been clear that agencies may not nullify statutes.\

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Judges: Lum, Nakamura, Padgett, Hayashi, Wakatsuki

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