Honolulu Advertiser, Inc. v. Takao

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• finding that no irreparable harm was shown because the transcript was to be made available to the public as soon as the trial was concluded
• affirming the lower court’s ruling that “the right of the press and public to access to public records is not unqualified and that must be weighed against the right of defendant to a fair trial”
• construing the phrase “any party,” as it appeal's in HRS § 606-12, which, at the time, authorized court reporters to “furnish a transcript of any of his [or her] notes ... upon the request of any party,” to mean “any person who seeks the transcript for a legitimate and proper purpose”
• a writ of mandamus is meant to restrain a judge of an inferior court from acting beyond or in excess of his or her jurisdiction
• a writ of mandamus is meant to restrain a judge of an inferior court from acting beyond or in excess of his or her jurisdiction
• a writ of mandamus is meant to restrain a judge of an inferior court from acting beyond or in excess of his or her jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).