SCI MANAGEMENT CORP. v. SIMS

No. 24485.

71 P.3d 389 (2003)

101 Hawai`i 438

SCI MANAGEMENT CORPORATION; Hawaiian Memorial Park Cemetery; Hawaiian Memorial Life Plan, Ltd. dba Borthwick Mortuaries; and Derek Kim, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Darryllynne SIMS, and Tammy Quinata; Harry Yee, Faye Kennedy, Jack Law, June Motokawa, and Allycyn Hikada Tasaka, in their official capacities as Commissioners of the Hawai'i Civil Rights Commission, Department of Labor & Industrial Relations, State of Hawai`i; and William D. Hoshijo, in his official capacity as Executive Director of the Hawai`i Civil Rights Commission, Department of Labor & Industrial Relations, State of Hawai`i, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

Reconsideration Granted in Part July 9, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gale L.F. Ching, of Hisaka Stone Goto Yoshida Cosgrove & Ching (Gale L.F. Ching, Mitzi A. Lee, Carter K. Siu, of Hisaka Stone Goto Yoshida Cosgrove & Ching, and Darwin L.D. Ching, on the brief), Honolulu, for the defendants-appellants Darryllynne Sims and Tammy Quinata.

Carl M. Varady, Special Attorney, Honolulu (Carl M. Varady, Eric K. Yamamoto, Jayna K. Kim and Carrie Anne Y. Shirota, on the brief), for the defendants-appellants Harry Yee, et al., in their official capacities as Commissioners of the Hawai'i Civil Rights Commission, Department of Labor & Industrial Relations, State of Hawai'i, and William D. Hoshijo, in his official capacity as Executive Director of the Hawai'i Civil Rights Commission, Department of Labor & Industrial Relations, State of Hawai'i.

Jeffrey S. Portnoy and Kristin S. Shigemura (Jeffrey S. Portnoy, David F.E. Banks, Kristin S. Shigemura, on the brief) of Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright, Honolulu, for the plaintiffs-appellees SCI Management Corp., et al.

MOON, C.J., LEVINSON and NAKAYAMA, JJ., and ACOBA, J., Dissenting Separately.


Opinion of the Court by LEVINSON, J.

The defendants-appellants Darryllynne Sims and Tammy Quinata [hereinafter, "the complainants"]; Harry Yee, Faye Kennedy, Jack Law, June Motokawa, and Allycyn Hikida Tasaka, in their official capacities as Commissioners of the Hawai'i Civil Rights Commission, Department of Labor & Industrial Relations, State of Hawai'i (HCRC) [hereinafter, "the commissioners"]; and William D. Hoshijo, in his official capacity as Executive Director...

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