Title: Koga Engineering & Construction, Inc. v. State of Hawaii

State: hawaii

Issuer: Hawaii Supreme Court

Document:

LAW LIBRARY

No. 28278

 

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HANAT

  

KOGA ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION, INC., &
Respondent & Petitioner/Plaintiff-Appellee >

  

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STATE OF HAWAI‘L,
Petitioner & Respondent /Defendant-Appel Lant.’/«

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CERTIORARI TO THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS
(CTV. NO, 01-1-3636-12(VSM) )

ORDER ACCEPTING APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
‘AND REQUESTING FURTHER BRIEFING

(By! Acoba, J., for the court’)

The July 8, 2008 applications for writ of certiorari
filed by Petitioner & Respondent/Defendant-Appellant State of

Hawai'i (the State) and Respondent @ Petitioner/Plaintift-
Appellee Koga Engineering & Construction, Inc. (Koga) are

accepted and will be scheduled for oral argument.
will be notified by the appellate clerk regarding scheduling.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Koga shall file a
supplemental brief addressing the issue of whether the procedure
set forth in Hawai'i Revised Statutes § 1030-703 is mandatory,
and thus determinative of jurisdiction in the circuit court of
Supplemental briefing on this

‘The parties

the first circuit (the court).
issue is necessary because it has been raised for the first time
The issue

by the State in its response to Koga’s Application.
was not raised by either party before the court or the

1» Reba, and Duffy, JJ., and

 

1 Considered by: Moon, C.J. Naka
Circuit Judge Kin, in place of Recktenwsld, J-, recused.
Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA), nor was

 

raised by the
ICR. The supplemental brief shall not exceed 10 pages in length
hall be filed by August 27, 2009,

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai"i, August 12, 2009.

and

 

   

FOR THE COURT:

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Associate Justice

Dorothy Sellers, Solicitor
General, and Rebecca A.
Copeland, Deputy Solicitor
General (on the Application)
and Michael Q.Y. Lau, Deputy
Attorney General (on the
Response) for Petitioner &
Respondent /Defendant-Appellant
State of Hawai'i.

Bert T. Kobayashi dr.
Christopher 7. Kobayashi
and Maria Y. Wang

for Respondent & Petitioner/
Plaintiff-appellee Koga
Engineering & Construction,
Inc.