Burk v. Sunn

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LUM, C.J.

This is an appeal by the State of Hawaii, Department of Social Services and Housing (“the Department”) from a judgment of the circuit court which invalidated certain administrative rules promulgated by the Department in 1981 and ordered the Department to reinstate certain public welfare benefits for the period from October 1, 1981 to July 19, 1982.

The original complaint against the Department was filed in October 1981 by eight individual recipients of public assistance whose benefits were reduced or terminated on the basis of new eligibility rules issued by the…