Kapepee v. Kupahi

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a panel decision is necessary to clarify an existing rule of law
• holding that a panel decision is necessary to clarify an existing rule of law
• single-judge disposition appropriate only where ease is one “of relative simplicity” whose outcome is controlled by Court’s precedents and is “not reasonably debatable”
• finding that a single judge may resolve an appeal if “the case on appeal is of relative simplicity and[, inter alia,] ... does not apply an established rule of law to a novel fact situation [or] the outcome is not reasonably debatable”
• setting forth criteria for cases suitable for summary disposition, including not establishing “a new rule of law” and not involving an “outcome [that] is reasonably debatable”
• summary disposition is appropriate where outcome of issues is controlled by Court’s precedents and is “not reasonably debatable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).