Puana v. Sunn

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an agency’s authority “is limited to enacting rules which carry out and further the purposes of the legislation”
• holding that an agency’s authority “is limited to enacting rules which carry out and further the purposes of the legislation”
• holding administrative rule valid where it was a reasonable regulation that carried out purpose of legislation
• noting that an agency’s “authority is ... limited to enacting rules which carry out and further the purposes of the legislation and do not enlarge, alter, or restrict the provisions of the act being administered”
• “Although HRS § 91-7 does not give the circuit court jurisdiction to hear a challenge to the application of a rule, it clearly does provide for attacks on a rule’s validity.”
• “The [DHS’s] authority ... is limited to enacting rules which carry out and further the purposes of the legislation and do not enlarge, alter, or restrict the provisions of the act being administered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).