TOKUHISA v. CUTTER MANAGEMENT CO.

No. 28641.

223 P.3d 246 (2009)

Kristie TOKUHISA, Court-Appointed Class Representative, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Cynthia Altman and Kelly Muller, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. CUTTER MANAGEMENT CO.; Cutter Motor Cars, Inc.; Cutter Dodge, Chrysler, Plymouth, Jeep of Pearl City, Inc. dba Cutter Dodge Chrysler Plymouth Jeep of Pearl City; Red Swan Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees, and Doe Defendants 1-50, Defendants, and Cutter Management Co.; Cutter Motor Cars, Inc.; Cutter Dodge, Chrysler, Plymouth, Jeep of Pearl City, Inc. dba Cutter Dodge Chrysler Plymouth Jeep of Pearl City, Third-Party Plaintiffs/Counterclaim Defendants-Appellees, v. Safe-Guard Products International, Inc., Third-Party Defendant/Counterclaim Plaintiff. Civil No. 02-1-0691 Kristie Tokuhisa, Court-Appointed Class Representative, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Walter Calizo, Rochelle Molina, Ferila Perez, Francisco Ancheta, Kelly Ancheta, Khamtan Tanhchaleun, and Chou Tanhchaleun, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Cutter Management Co.; Cutter Dodge, Inc.; Rainbow Chevrolet, Inc.; Cutter Ford, Inc.; Cutter Imports, Inc.; Cutter Motor Cars, Inc.; Cutter of Waipahu, Inc.; Cutter Pontiac, Buick, GMC of Waipahu, Inc.; Red Swan Incorporated; Safe-Guard Products International, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, and Doe Defendants 1-50, Defendants, and Cutter Management Co.; Cutter Dodge, Inc.; Rainbow Chevrolet, Inc.; Cutter Ford, Inc.; Cutter Imports, Inc.; Cutter Motor Cars, Inc.; Cutter of Waipahu, Inc.; Cutter Pontiac, Buick, GMC of Waipahu, Inc., Cross-Claim Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Safe-Guard Products International, Inc., Cross-Claim Defendants-Appellees, and Doe Defendants 1-50, Cross-Claim Defendants, and Safe-Guard Products International, Inc., Cross-Claim Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Cutter Management Co.; Cutter Dodge, Inc.; Rainbow Chevrolet, Inc.; Cutter Ford, Inc.; Cutter Imports, Inc.; Cutter Motor Cars, Inc.; Cutter of Waipahu, Inc.; Cutter Pontiac, Buick, GMC of Waipahu, Inc., Cross-Claim Defendants-Appellees. Civil No. 02-1-2915

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawai`i.

December 21, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Alston (Bruce H. Wakuzawa and Peter S. Knapman (Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing), Honolulu, and George Van Buren and Robert Campbell (Van Buren Campbell & Shimizu) with him on the briefs), Honolulu, for Tokuhisa.

Lisa Woods Munger (Joachim P. Cox and Robert K. Fricke (Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel) with her on the brief), Honolulu, for Cutter.

Lane Hornfeck (Terence J. O'Toole and Wil K. Yamamoto (Starn O'Toole Marcus & Fisher) with him on the brief), Honolulu, for Safe-Guard.

William J. Deeley, Dennis W. King, and Glenn S. Horio (Deeley, King & Pang), on the brief, Honolulu, for Red Swan.

FOLEY and FUJISE, JJ.; and WATANABE, Presiding J., Dissenting and Concurring.


Opinion of the Court by FOLEY, J.

Plaintiff-Appellant Kristie Tokuhisa (Tokuhisa), Court-Appointed Class Representative, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, appeals from the Final Judgment filed on June 21, 2007 in the Circuit Court of the First Circuit (circuit court).1

This appeal arises from two consolidated class action lawsuits: Civil No. 02-1-06912 and Civil No. 02-1-2915...

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