Ray-O-Vac Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the private attorney general doctrine is one of the “equitable exceptions to the American Rule that ‘each party is responsible for paying his or her own litigation expenses’”
• noting that “all of the citizens of the state, present and future, stood to 74 *** FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAI‘I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER *** benefit from the decision”
• plaintiffs challenged the decision of a tribunal in an adversarial setting rather than an established government policy or action
• “[t]his court has recognized a number of equitable exceptions to the ‘American [r]ule’ ”
• \[t]his court has recognized a number of equitable exceptions to the `American [r]ule.'\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).