Title: Tanaka v. Kuriyama

State: hawaii

Issuer: Hawaii Supreme Court

Document:

No. 28261
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I

  

TROY YOSHIO TANAKA, Petitioner

SI Ony 9.

HONORABLE CHRISTINE KURIYAMA, q
Judge of the Family Court of the First Circuit,
State of Hawai'i; PIYAPORN TANAKA, Respondents

 

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
(By: Moon, €.J., Levinson, Nakayama, Acoba, and Duffy, JJ.)
upon consideration of the petition for a writ of
mandamus filed by petitioner Troy Tanaka and the papers in
support, it appears that HRAP Rule @ provides a procedure for
obtaining a stay of the March 13, 2006 divorce decree pending
petitioner's appeal of the decree in No. 27818 and a writ of
mandamus is not intended to serve as 2 legal remedy in lieu of
normal appellate procedures. See Kema v, Gaddis, 91 Hawai'i 200,
204, 982 P.28 334, 338 (1999) (A writ of mandamus is an
extraordinary remedy that will not issue unless the petitioner
Gemonstrates a clear and indisputable right to relief and 2 lack

of alternative means to redress adequately the alleged wrong or
obtain the requested action. Such writs are not intended to

supersede the legal discretionary authority of the lower courts,
nor are they intended to serve as legal remedies in liew of

normal appellate procedures.). Therefore,

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IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for a writ of

mandamus is denied.

ORTED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, December 6, 2006.

Lynnae Lee and
's Kam for
the petition