JORDAN v. HAMADA

No. 6547.

616 P.2d 1368 (1980)

Theodore B. JORDAN, Intervenor-Appellant, v. Mack H. HAMADA, Chairman, Hawaii Public Employment Relations Board; John E. Milligan and James K. Clark, Board Members of the Hawaii Public Employment Relations Board and the Hawaii Public Employment Relations Board, Appellees, and the Hawaii Government Employees' Association, Local 152, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, Petitioner-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

September 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin L. Doernberger, Honolulu (James S. Campbell and Kent M. Keith, Honolulu, with him on the briefs, Cades, Schutte, Fleming & Wright, Honolulu, of counsel), for intervenor-appellant.

Benjamin C. Sigal, Honolulu (Shim, Sigal, Tam & Naito, Honolulu, of counsel), for petitioner-appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., and OGATA, MENOR, LUM and NAKAMURA, JJ.


NAKAMURA, Justice.

The sole question for decision is whether an appeal from an administrative agency to a circuit court was rendered fatally defective by the appellant's failure to include the name of the agency in the caption of the notice of appeal. We hold that it was not, and reverse the circuit court's dismissal of the appeal.

I.

Appellant Theodore B. Jordan is a state employee belonging to an appropriate...

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