Ververka v. Dept. of Veterans Affairs

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the right of enforcement in article XI, section 9 of the Hawai‘i Constitution is self-executing because the language “does not suggest that legislative action is needed before the right can be implemented”
• crediting the legislature’s post-hoc interpretation of art. XI, § 9 in determining that the statute at issue was a law relating to environmental quality
• noting the “volume of land development activity in the State” in the context of individual enforcement actions concerning the Land Use Commission
• applying Rule 55 of the Hawai#i Rules of Civil Procedure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).