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YAMADA v. NATURAL DISASTER CLAIMS COMMISSION

No. 5223.

513 P.2d 1001 (1973)

Robert M. YAMADA and Emma M. Yamada, Appellants, v. NATURAL DISASTER CLAIMS COMMISSION for the County of Hawaii for the Volcanic Eruption of 1960 and the Tsunami of 1960, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

August 24, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shuichi Miyasaki, Honolulu, and Roy K. Nakamoto, Hilo (Masanori Kushi, Hilo, with them on the briefs), for appellants.

T. Bruce Honda, Deputy Atty. Gen. (George Pai, Atty. Gen., of counsel), for appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., MARUMOTO and LEVINSON, JJ., VITOUSEK, Circuit Judge, in place of ABE, J., disqualified, and KAWAKAMI, Circuit Judge, in place of KOBAYASHI, J., disqualified.

LEVINSON, Justice.

This dispute is the culmination of years of administrative wrangling over the value of property losses suffered by the appellants as a result of natural disasters and, as such, it presents us with a case of first impression regarding the power of an administrative commission to initiate reconsideration of its prior decisions.

The facts are as follows: The Island of Hawaii, where the appellants...

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