Title: Waltrip v. TS Enterprises, Inc. (Order)

State: hawaii

Issuer: Hawaii Supreme Court

Document:

Electronically Filed
Intermediate Court of Appeals
CAAP-11-0000722
28-AUG-2014
08:31 AM
NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST'S HAWAII REPORTS OR THE PACIFIC REPORTER

Waltrip does not suggest a statutory or regulatory
basis supporting her September 23, 2011 motion to vacate, which
essentially was a second motion for reconsideration on the same
grounds as the first, and we can find none. We hold that there
was no authority for the Board to rule on the merits of the
motion and, as such, rather than issuing a denial, the Board
should have dismissed the motion for lack of subject matter
jurisdiction. See Hawaii Mgmt. Alliance Ass'n v. Ins. Comm'r,
4106 Hawai'i 21, 27, 100 P.3d 952, 958 (2004) (holding that the
insurance commissioner's authority to hear external review
appeals, as authorized by statute, was a question of subject
matter jurisdiction); see also Bush v. Watson, 61 Hawai'i 474,
480, 918 P.2d 1130, 1136 (1996) (stating that dismissal for lack
of subject matter jurisdiction is not an adjudication on the
merits). Accordingly, we vacate the Second Post-Judgment Order
because the Board lacked subject matter jurisdiction. Haw. Rav.
Sear. § 386-87(d) (1993).

Therefore,

‘The September 28, 2011 Order Denying Claimant's Motion
to Vacate Decision of duly 25, 2011 is vacated and the case is
remanded to the Board for entry of an order dismissing the motion
for lack of jurisdiction.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, August 28, 2014.
on the briefs:

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uy Special Compensation Fund argues that *[t]o the extent that [the
Board) lacked jurisdiction, it would appear that (Chis court} would also lack
Jurisdiction co entertain (Waltrip's) motion te vacate (ehe Board's) decision
and order," However, this court has jurisdiction to correct an error fi
Jurisdiction. Seo, @.9., Koga Eng'g # Const, Ine. v. State, 122 Hawai'i 60,
3, 222° F.3d 973, 1003 (dono)