TOWSE v. STATE

No. 6487.

647 P.2d 696 (1982)

Edward A. TOWSE; Bettye Irene Towse; Brutus C. Hamm; Florence K. Hamm; Sadato Yoshimura; Robert Kashinoki; Edith Mew-Heone Kashinoki; Harold E. Yamashita; Halene M. Yamashita; Oscar Johnson; Anthony Redling; Nellannette A. Redling; Daryl D. Aiwohi; Roy Heu; Teddy Bodziak; Joseph D. Moniz; Dorothy E. Moniz; Joseph Koszewnik; Myoung Ja Koszewnik; Raplee K. Cummins; Laverne D. Cummins; Loreto Raquel; Perlita V. Raquel; Casimir C. Preda, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE of Hawaii; Nelson K. Doi, individually and in his capacity as Lieutenant Governor and as Head of the Governor's Task Force on the Hawaii State Prison; Andrew Chang, individually and in his capacity as Director of the Department of Social Services & Housing and as member of the Governor's Task Force on the Hawaii State Prison; Ronald Amemiya, individually and in his capacity as Attorney General for the State of Hawaii and as member of the Governor's Task Force on the Hawaii State Prison; Antone Olim, individually and in his capacity as Superintendent of Hawaii State Prison; John Smythe, individually and in his capacity as Superintendent of Hawaii State Prison; John Smythe, individually and in his capacity as Correctional Care Administrator; Elwood Reynolds, individually and in his capacity as Administrative Captain and Training Officer; Valentine A. Sieferman, individually and as the Adjutant General of the Hawaii Air National Guard; John Does 1 through 10, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

June 18, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Turbin, Honolulu, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Dudley Akama, Deputy Atty. Gen., Honolulu (Everett Cuskaden, Deputy Atty. Gen., Honolulu, on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., LUM and NAKAMURA, JJ., and OGATA and MENOR, Retired Justices, Assigned Temporarily.


OGATA, Retired Justice.

This is an appeal brought by Plaintiffs-Appellants, fifteen prison guards (hereinafter "appellant-guards") and certain of their wives (hereinafter "appellant-wives"), from an order of the Circuit Court of the First Circuit dismissing their action for defamation, false imprisonment and loss of consortium against Defendants-Appellees.1 For the reasons set out below, we affirm.

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