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PUNOHU v. SUNN

No. 8859.

666 P.2d 1133 (1983)

Pamela PUNOHU, Annette Okikawa, Marylou Doescher, Frances Tauala, Patricia Fernandez, Earlene Demello, Ernell Garcia, Pearl Lee, Lillian Correa, Lucille Sanchez, Patricia Miranda, Barbara and Dennis Branco, Patricia Gahan, and Jerold Doss, Veronica Relles, individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Franklin SUNN, Director of the Department of Social Services and Housing, Defendant-Appellant. Charnan KUALAPAI, Aileen Morita, Audrey Isagawa, Claire Lubick, Monsarrat Toro, Mabel Young, Eleanor Gomes, Charlynn Washburn, Joyce Miles, Willene Paishon, Joann Martin and Paz Cuyno, individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Franklin SUNN, Director of the Department of Social Services and Housing, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

July 18, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. Farrell, Deputy Atty. Gen., Honolulu, for defendant-appellant.

Brenton Rogozen, Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, Honolulu, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before LUM, C.J., NAKAMURA, PADGETT and HAYASHI, JJ., and CHANG, Circuit Judge, assigned by reason of vacancy.

PADGETT, Judge.

This is an appeal by the State of Hawaii from judgments entered against it in two cases brought in the Circuit Court of the First Circuit by welfare recipients for declaratory and injunctive relief against cuts in their benefits, payable by the State of Hawaii. We reverse and remand for dismissal of the suits.

There were 15 individual plaintiffs named in the original complaint in Civil No. 69201 filed in the First Circuit Court. For some reason...

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