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· 9/9/1987

Mahiai v. Suwa

Citations

  • 742 P.2d 359
  • 69 Haw. 349
  • 1987 Haw. LEXIS 93

How courts have described this case

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

  • “Courts will not adopt an interpretation of a rule which would lead to an absurd result.”
  • \Courts will not adopt an interpretation of a rule which would lead to an absurd result.\
  • courts favor a specific law over a general law when there is an irreconcilable conflict, however, when the statutes “overlap in their application, effect will be given to both if possible”
  • “[R]epeal by implication is disfavored.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Lum, Nakamura, Padgett, Hayashi, Intermediate, Burns, Place, Wakatsuki

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