Title: World Botanical Gardens, Inc. v. Wagner

State: hawaii

Issuer: Hawaii Supreme Court

Document:

LAW LIBRARY

No. 27725

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAT'T

WORLD BOTANICAL GARDENS, INCORPORATED,
‘a Nevada corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee

vs. i
WALTER WAGNER and LINDA WAGNER, Defendants-Appellants

and

 

DAN PERKINS; DAVID ADAMS; JOHN DOES 1-10;
JANE DOES 1-10, and DOB ENTITIES 1-10, Defendants

 

APPEAL FROM THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT
(CV. NO, 05-1-0210)

ORDER
(By: Moon, C.J., Levinson, Nakayama, Reoba, and Duffy, JJ.)
upon consideration of Plaintiff-Appellee World

Botanical Gardens, Inc.'s motion to dismiss the appeal of
Defendant-Appeiiant Walter L. Wagner and Linda M. Wagner for lack
of appellate jurisdiction and request for sanctions, the papers
in support and opposition, and the records and files herein, st

(1) on January 20, 2006, Appellants filed a notice

 

appears that

notion to

 

of appeal from the order granting Plaintitt-appellee
compel discovery and for sanctions; (2) pursuant to HRS § 641-1,
which governs appeals in civil cases, appeals are allowed only
from final judgments, orders or decrees of the circuit and
district courts unless the court appealed from certifies an
interlocutory order for appeal pursuant to HRS § 641-1(b); (3)

the order being appealed from by Appellants is not @ final
judgment, and the circuit court did not grant Appellants leave to
take an interlocutory appeal; (4) an order granting a motion to
compel discovery is not appealable pursuant to the collateral
order doctrine. See Abrams v, Cades, Schutte, Fleming & Wriaht,
88 Hawai'i 319, 966 P.2d 631 (1999) (an order granting a motion
to compel discovery of a letter claimed to be protected by
attorney-client privilege is not appealable in an interlocutory
appeal pursuant to the collateral order doctrine), and (5) this
court lacks appellate jurisdiction. Therefore,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the motion to dismiss appeal
is granted, and this appeal is dismissed for lack of appellate
jurisdiction.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the request for sanctions is
denied.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, May 1, 2006.

Thomas LH. Yeh

for plaintiff-appellee
on the motion

Walter L. Wagner

and Linda M. Wagner

defendants~appellants,
pro ge, in opposition