ASADA v. SUNN

No. 8733.

666 P.2d 584 (1983)

Kiyomi ASADA, Beverly Tadaki, Individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Franklin SUNN, Acting Director, Department of Social Services and Housing, State of Hawaii and Wayne S. Omura, Services Program Development Administrator, State of Hawaii, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

June 24, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert K. Richardson, Deputy Atty. Gen., Honolulu, for defendants-appellants.

Brenton Rogozen (Legal Aid Soc. of Hawaii) Honolulu, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before LUM, C.J., NAKAMURA, PADGETT, HAYASHI, JJ., and Circuit Judge CHANG, Assigned by Reason of Vacancy.


PADGETT, Justice.

This is an appeal by the defendants-appellants from a judgment entered pursuant to an order granting summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs-appellees. We reverse.

We begin by noting we are faced with a voluminous record brought up from the court below, consisting of three thick volumes. Because appellees' complaint did not contain a short and plain statement of their claim, as required by Rule 8(a)(1), HRCP, because over 200 pages of...

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