State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Metcalf

How courts have described this case

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• noting Hawaii’s strong interest in protecting consumers from unfair and deceptive trade practices by insurance carriers
• “Here, the State brought a civil action in order to enforce a state statute prohibiting unfair and deceptive advertising by insurance carriers. Such an action, allowing for fines and penalties for violations of the statute, is akin to a criminal prosecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).