Legal Opinion
Punikaia v. Clark
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 7, 1983No. 82-4189PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge:
Ten leprosy patients (the patients), some of whom live at the Hale Mohalu leprosari-um near Honolulu, sued to enjoin the State of Hawaii from closing that facility. The patients claim that a variety of state and federal statutes, regulations, written' contracts, and customs, create both a property and liberty interest in the form of a legitimate entitlement to continued medical care and residence facilities at Hale Mohalu. They contend that this entitlement prohibits the state from closing the facility, or alternatively, that it requires the state to provide them with a…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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