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Tuesday, October 13, 2026
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Island hopping

HONOLULU (CN) — A Kauai police department official must face claims that she helped a fireman with no custodial rights to his daughter obtain a restraining order and then take the child to another Hawaiian island after conducting a “grab and go,” the Ninth Circuit ruled.

Read the ruling here.

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