Title: Clay v. McKenna

State: hawaii

Issuer: Hawaii Supreme Court

Document:

No. 27777

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I

 

 

ALICE P. CLAY, Petitioner

   

 

THE HONORABLE SABRINA S$. MCKENNA, Judge of the Cizéuit =
Court of the First Circuit, State of Hawai'i; STATE OF @
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CRUMPTON & THAMURA; GERALD S. CLAY; ROBERT B. Chi 2
SCOTT I. BATTERMAN and DOE DEFENDANTS 1-20, Respondents

 

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
(CIV. No. 05-1-1720)

ORDER

(By: Moon, C.J., Levinson, Nakayama, Acoba, and Duffy, JJ.)

Upon consideration of Petitioner Alice P. Clay’s

application for a writ of mandamus, the papers in support and
opposition, and the records and files herein, it appears: (1)
Petitioner is seeking review of the order granting a motion to
disqualify Petitioner's attorney and the order denying the motion
for reconsideration in Clay v. Hochberg, Civil No, 5-1-1720,
presently pending in the Circuit Court of the First Circuits (2)
a petition for a writ of mandamus is an appropriate way to review
an order of disqualification. See Straub Clinic 4 Hospital v.
Mochi, 61 Hawai'i 410, 917 P.2d 1284 (1996); Chuck v. St. Paul
Fire and Marine Insurance Co., 61 Haw. $52, 606 P.2d 1320 (1980);
(3) where the basis upon which the trial court rested its order
of disqualification is clearly insufficient and 2 convincing

showing is made by the petitioner that irreparable and immediate

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harm would otherwise result, the petitioner's application for a
writ of mandamus will be granted: Chuck, 61 Haw. at 558, 606 P.2¢
at 1324; (4) Petitioner fails to establish that the basis upon
which the order of disqualification was granted is clearly
insufficient, and she fails to make a convincing showing that she
will suffer irreparable and immediate harm as a result of the
disqualification order; and (5) thus, Petitioner fails to
demonstrate she is entitled to a writ of mandamus, Therefore,

17 IS HEREBY ORDERED that petition for a writ of
mandamus is denied.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, June 19, 2006.

Rory Soares Toomey

for petitioner on the
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James D. Boughey .
and Mark L. Cokee telecom

for respondents

Stanton clay Chapnan
Grunpton & Iwamura, Bnet Ce Peed me
Gerald's. Clays Robert E.

Chapnan, ‘and Scott.

Batterman in opposition

Keith K, Hiraoka Cane rats br.

and Rhonda L. Ching
for respondent
Lloyd James Hochberg,
Jr. on the statement
of no position