Case Title: Blaisdell v. Circuit Court of the First Circuit, State of Hawaii

Citation: 

Docket Number: 29723

State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Document:
No, 29723
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I

RICHARD BLAISDELL, Petitioner,

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CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT, STATE OF HAWAET

and DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, Responden

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
(CIVIL NO. 04-1-1455)

 

ORDER
(By: Moon, C.J., Nakayama, Acoba, and Duffy, JJ. and
Circuit Judge Raffetto, assigned by reason of vacancy)

Upon consideration of the petition for a writ of
mandamus filed by petitioner Richard Blaisdell, the papers in
support, and the answer by respondent Circuit Court of the First
Circuit, it appears that petitioner, having prevailed in his
appeal of Civil No. 04-1-1455, has a clear and indisputable right
to the declaratory and other relief sought from the circuit court
and from defendant Department of Public Safety in Civil No, 0d-1-
1455. See Blaisdell v, Department of Public Safety, 119 Hawai'i
275, 196 P.3d 277 (2008). Civil No. 04-1-1455 was remanded to
the circuit court on Decenber 2, 2008 with instructions to enter
a declaratory judgment and certain orders, but such judgment and
orders have not been entered to date. Petitioner moved the
circuit court on February 9, 2009 to expeditiously dispose of
Civil No. 04-1-1455, but the circuit court further delayed
disposition by reassigning the case on February 11, 2009 and
again reassigning the case sometime after March 27, 2009. Any
further delay in disposing of Civil No. 04-1-1455 would be

contrary to the circuit court’s duty to promptly and efficiently

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Gispose of the case. Therefore, petitioner is entitled to
mandamus relief. See Kena v. Gaddis, 91 Hawai'i 200, 204, 982
P.2d 324, 338 (1999) (A writ of mandamus is an extraordinary
renedy that will issue where the petitioner denonstrates a clear
and indisputable right to relief and a lack of alternative means
to redress adequately the alleged wrong or obtain the requested
action.). Accordingly,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for a writ of
mandamus is granted. The Circuit Court of the First Circuit,
shall, by June 1, 2009: (1) enter a judgment in Civil No. 04-1-
1495 declaring plaintiff Richard Blaisdell’s “restricted” account
violative of HRS § 353-20 and order such relief to plaintiff as
may be appropriate as a result of such declaration, and (2) order
interest to the extent due but not yet credited, to be paid on
plaintiff's accounts.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, May 12, 2009.

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