· 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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