· 4/4/1974
Tighe v. City and County of Honolulu
Citations
- 520 P.2d 1345
- 55 Haw. 420
- 1974 Haw. LEXIS 116
How courts have described this case
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- holding a provision of the Honolulu city charter, analogous to the Colorado open records laws, inapplicable as a limitation on Hawaii Rule of Civil Procedure 26 (b)(1)
- holding disclosure of records to a party during the course of litigation does not constitute the type of “public inspection” precluded by the public records act
- “The very broad discovery specifically granted to litigants under the provisons of Rules 33(b) and 26(b)(1
- open records provision of Honolulu City Charter does not limit rules of civil procedure
- open records provision of Honolulu City Charter does not limit rules of civil procedure
- \The very broad discovery specifically granted to litigants ... cannot be said to be limited by the terms of a charter provision directed toward regulation of the entirely different situation of the general exploration of public records by any citizen during general business hours.\
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Judges: Richardson, Kobayashi, Ogata, Hawkins, Place, Levinson, Fukushima, Temporarily
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