Case Title: Bylsma v. Hawaii State Judiciary

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Docket Number: 

State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2006-10-04T00:00:00Z

Document:
No. 28160

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAT'I

DAVID G. BYLSMA, Plaintiff Pro Se,

 

HAWAII STATE JUDICIARY, Defendants. In

 

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ORDER
(By: Levinson, Acting C.J., Nakayama, Acoba and Duffy,
and Intermediate Court of Appeals Judge Nakamura,

in place of Moon, C.J., recused)

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Upon consideration of the petition for a writ of
mandamus filed by petitioner David Bylsma and the papers in
support, it appears that the duties imposed upon the Commission
on Judicial Conduct by RSCSH Rule 8.6 axe duties owed to the
supreme court, not to petitioner, and the duties involve judgment
and discretion and are more than ministerial. Cf. In Re
Disciplinary Bd. of Hawaii Supreme court, 91 Hawai'i 363, 371,
984 P.2d 688, 696 (1999). Therefore, mandamus relief against the
Commission on Judicial Conduct is not available to petitioner.
Id. (Wandamus relief is available to compel an official to
perform a duty allegedly owed to an individual only if the
individual's claim is clear and certain, the official's duty is
ministerial and so plainly prescribed as to be free from doubt,

and no other remedy is available.). Therefore,

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IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for a writ of

mandamus is denied.

 

Honolulu, Hawai"i, October 4, 2006.

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