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KAINA v. Gellman

Citations

  • 197 P.3d 776
  • 119 Haw. 324
  • 2008 Haw. App. LEXIS 767

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that a sanctioning order \must inform the party of the authority pursuant to which he or she is to be sanctioned\
  • noting that HRS §§ 603-21.9(1) and (6) 32 are the “legislative restatement of the inherent powers doctrine”
  • requiring the court to state the authority for its award of fees and costs, and to make \a specific finding of bad faith\ to invoke its inherent powers to sanction
  • “[T]he court’s order must inform the party of the authority pursuant to which he or she is to be sanctioned.” (citing Fujimoto, 95 Hawai‘i at 153, 19 P.3d at 736)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Recktenwald, Fujise, Leonard

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