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BEAMER v. NISHIKI

No. 9054.

670 P.2d 1264 (1983)

Martha L. "Billie" BEAMER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Wayne NISHIKI, Wayne Nishiki dba Committee to Elect Wayne Nishiki Lt. Governor; Valley Isle Publishers, a Partnership, and Rick Reed, Defendants-Appellants, and James Leslie Moore, Geoffrey Silva, Partners therein; Valley Isle Publisher, Inc., a purported Hawaii corporation; John Does 1-10; and John Doe Corporations, 1-10, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

October 4, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randolph R. Slaton, Honolulu (Chee, Lee, Oshiro & Williams, Honolulu, of counsel), for defendant-appellant Wayne Nishiki.

Rick Reed, pro se, individually and as trustee in dissolution for Valley Isle Publishers, Inc., defendants-appellants.

David C. Schutter, Robert K. Merce, Honolulu (Schutter, Pavey & Cayetano, Honolulu, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LUM, C.J., and NAKAMURA, PADGETT, HAYASHI and WAKATSUKI, JJ.

HAYASHI, Justice.

Once again we must decide the propriety of summary judgment in a public figure defamation action. The present case has its roots in the allegations of underworld involvement which were the subject of this court's opinion in Mehau v. Gannett Pacific Corp., 66 Haw. 134, 658 P.2d 312 (1983), and, in addition, involves basically the same defendants and election campaign presented in Rodriguez v. Nishiki,

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