Case Title: Ahokovi-Lizares Motorcars

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Docket Number: SCPW-15-0000358

State: hawaii

Court: Hawaii Supreme Court

Date: 2020-09-30T00:00:00Z

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SCPW-15-0000358 (Consolidated with SCPW-15-0000509) IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAIʻI AHOKOVI-LIZARES MOTORCARS, LLC and HESELOMI V. AHOKOVI, Petitioners, vs. THE HONORABLE PRESIDING JUDGE, DISTRICT COURT OF THE THIRD CIRCUIT, NORTH AND SOUTH KONA DIVISION, Respondent Judge, and STATE OF HAWAIʻI, Respondent. ORIGINAL PROCEEDING (3DCW-13-0001805) ORDER DENYING PETITIONS FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS (By: Recktenwald, C.J., McKenna, and Wilson, JJ., Circuit Judge Valenciano, in place of Circuit Judge Garibaldi, retired, and Circuit Judge Bissen, assigned by reason of vacancy) Upon consideration of Petitioners Ahokovi-Lizares Motorcars, LLC and Heselomi V. Ahokovi’s petitions for a writ of mandamus, the respondent’s answer, the respective supporting documents, and the record, it appears that petitioners fail to demonstrate that the respondent court flagrantly and manifestly abused its discretion in deciding the restitution issue. Petitioners, therefore, are not entitled to the requested Electronically Filed Supreme Court SCPW-15-0000358 30-SEP-2020 02:13 PM 2 extraordinary relief. See Kema v. Gaddis, 91 Hawaiʻi 200, 204- 05, 982 P.2d 334, 338-39 (1999) (a writ of mandamus is an extraordinary remedy; where the lower court has discretion to act, mandamus will not lie to control the exercise of that discretion even when the court has acted erroneously, unless the judge has exceeded his or her jurisdiction, has committed a flagrant and manifest abuse of discretion, or has refused to act on a matter that is properly before the court under circumstances in which he or she has a duty to act). Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petitions for writ of mandamus are denied. DATED: Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, September 30, 2020. /s/ Mark E. Recktenwald /s/ Sabrina S. McKenna /s/ Michael D. Wilson /s/ Randal G.B. Valenciano /s/ Richard T. Bissen