Mehau v. Reed

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the word “court” in HRS § 93E-ll(e) (1985) was ambiguous because it could be interpreted as meaning either “judge” or “jury”
• holding that the right to a jury trial is “inviolate” absent waiver
• “The construction of a statute is a question of law which the court reviews under the right/wrong standard.”
• “The right to jury trial is inviolate in the absence of an unequivocal and clear showing of a waiver of such right either by express or implied conduct.” (Citations and brackets omitted.)
• \The right to jury trial is inviolate in the absence of an unequivocal and clear showing of a waiver of such right either by express or implied conduct.\ (Citations and brackets omitted.)
• “[I]t is well settled in this jurisdiction that when either of the litigating parties properly demanded jury, it fixed the status of the case and the other party was not required to file his [or her] own demand.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).