Title: Protect Puako v. County of Hawaii

State: hawaii

Issuer: Hawaii Supreme Court

Document:

NO. 24690 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI#I _________________________________________________________________ PROTECT PUAKO, Petitioner, vs. COUNTY OF HAWAI#I; BRIDGE PUAKO, LLC; and DOES 1-10, Respondents. _________________________________________________________________ ORIGINAL PROCEEDING (Civ. No. 00-1-0279) ORDER (By: Moon, C.J., Levinson, Nakayama, Ramil, and Acoba, JJ.) Upon consideration of Petitioner Protect Puako’s petition for a writ of mandamus and the papers in support, it appears that: (1) Petitioner is seeking review of rulings issued in Protect Puako v. County of Hawaii, Civil No. 00-1-4279, presently pending in the Circuit Court of the Third Circuit; (2) A writ of mandamus will not issue unless the petitioner demonstrates a clear and indisputable right to relief and a lack of alternative means to redress adequately the alleged wrong or obtain the requested action. State v. Hamili, 87 Hawai#i 102, 104, 952 P.2d 3900, 392 (1998); (3) A writ of mandamus is not intended to take the place of an appeal; and (4) Petitioner fails to demonstrate that it is entitled to a writ of mandamus. Therefore, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for a writ of mandamus is denied without prejudice to any remedy Petitioner may have in the pending circuit court proceedings and without 2 prejudice to any remedy Petitioner may have by way of appeal from any adverse judgment. DATED: Honolulu, Hawai#i, December 5, 2001.