Hawaii Supreme Court· 6/18/2001

In re the Water Use Permit Applications

Citations

96 Haw. 27
25 P.3d 802
2001 Haw. LEXIS 240

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stating that the private attorney general doctrine is one of the “equitable exceptions to the American Rule that ‘each party is responsible for paying his or her own litigation expenses’”
noting that “all of the citizens of the state, present and future, stood to 74 *** FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAI‘I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER *** benefit from the decision”
plaintiffs challenged the decision of a tribunal in an adversarial setting rather than an established government policy or action
“[t]his court has recognized a number of equitable exceptions to the ‘American [r]ule’ ”
\[t]his court has recognized a number of equitable exceptions to the `American [r]ule.'\

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Judges: Ibarra, Klein, Levinson, Moon, Nakayama, Place, Ramil

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