AWAKUNI v. AWANA

No. 27184.

165 P.3d 1027 (2007)

Gail AWAKUNI; Janis Bush; Diane Kellet; Mona Stevenson; Sue Stock; Nancy Teruya and Raymond Uyeno, for Themselves and all other similarly situated Employees, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Bob AWANA; Harold Decosta; Mark Recktenwald; Katherine Thomason; Kathleen Watanabe; Willard Miyake; Joan Lewis; Gerald Machida; John Radcliffe; Dayton Nakaneiua; State of Hawai`i, Defendants-Appellees, and John Does 1-10, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

August 24, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. Brandt, Bonnie Moore (Lyons, Brandt, Cook & Hiramatsu), Honolulu, and James N. Duca (Kessner Duca Umebayashi Bain & Matsunaga), Honolulu, on the briefs, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Brian P. Aburano, Deputy Attorney General, James Kawashima, Kristine Tsukiyama, (Watanabe Ing Kawashima & Komeiji LLP), Honolulu, Brian T. Ortelere, and Beth M. Henke (Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP), on the briefs, for defendants-appellees.

NAKAYAMA, ACOBA, and DUFFY, JJ., and Circuit Judge MARKS, in place of LEVINSON, J., Recused; with MOON, C.J., concurring separately.


Opinion of the Court by DUFFY, J.

Plaintiffs-Appellants Gail Awakuni, Janis Bush, Diane Kellet, Mona Stevenson, Sue Stock, Nancy Teruya, and Raymond Uyeno, for themselves and all other similarly situated employees [hereinafter, Plaintiffs], appeal from the February 24, 2005 final judgment of the Circuit Court of the First Circuit, the Honorable Gary W.B. Chang presiding, which granted summary judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees, the trustees of the Hawai`i Employer...

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