Case Title: Suzuki v. Thom

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Docket Number: 

State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

Document:
LAW LISRARY

no, 29716

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAT'T.,

LOLA SUZUKI, Petitioner,

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ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
(CASE NO. AB 2007-497 (2-06-14727))
(CASE NO. AB 2007-498 (2-07-04617))

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

Upon consideration of the petition for a writ of
mandamus filed by petitioner Lola Suzuki and the papers in

support, Lt appears that petitioner fails to demonstrate that the
xespondent chairman of the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals

Board (LIRAB) had a duty to rule in favor of petitioner on the

 

matters of treatment, discovery, appeal issues, summary judgment,
and sanctions, Respondent’s rulings will be reviewable on appeal
to the intermediate court of appeals from the LIRAB’s final
decision in AB 2007-497 and AB 2007-498. See HRS § 386-88 (Supp.
2008). Therefore, petitioner is not entitled to mandamus relief.
See HRS § 602-5(3) (Supp. 2008) (The supreme court has
jurisdiction and power to issue writs of mandamus directed to
public officers to compel them to fulfill the duties of their

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d+ In Re Disciplinary Bd, Of Hawaii Supreme Court, 91
Hawai'i 363, 368, 984 P.2d 688, 693 (1999) (Mandamus 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.}; Salling v. Moon, 76 Hawai'i 273, 274 n. 3, 874 P.2a
1098, 1099 n.3 (1994) (“A duty is ministerial where the law
prescribes and defines the duty to be performed with such
precision and certainty as to leave nothing to the exercise of
discretion and judgment."). Accordingly,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for a writ of
mandamus is denied

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the motion for leave to
anend the petition is denied.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, april 9, 2009.

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