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Wong v. Cayetano

Citations

  • 143 P.3d 1
  • 111 Haw. 462

How courts have described this case

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  • reiterating that malice is an essential element that the complainant must demonstrate in order to maintain an action for malicious prosecution
  • implicitly approving screening measures between attorney general criminal division attorneys pursuing charges against trustee of charitable trust and civil division attorneys seeking removal of trustee in probate court
  • \[A] motion seeking dismissal of a complaint is transformed into a [HRCP] Rule 56 motion for summary judgment when the circuit court considers matters outside the pleadings.\ (citation omitted)
  • emphasis added; citations, internal quotation marks, ellipsis, and footnotes omitted; italics in the original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Duffy, Ahn, Nishimura, Border, Hara, Moon, Levinson, Nakayama, Acoba

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