Loui v. Board of Medical Examiners

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that one-year revocation of license to practice medicine was designed to protect public from unfit physicians and was not punishment under Double Jeopardy Clause
• concluding medical license suspension after doctor convicted of sexual abuse protected public from unfit doctor, serving legitimate nonpunitive governmental objectives
• stating that “as long as evidence [admitted at an administrative hearing] ... w[as] relevant as defined by HRE Rule 401, it was proper for [the agency] to admit [it]”
• finding kidnapping and attempted sexual abuse to be grounds for revocation of license to practice medicine
• “It is clear that the statute in question is not designed to ‘punish’ ... rather, it is designed to protect the public from unfit physicians.”
• revocation of license to practice medicine is designed to protect public, not to punish the physician

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