Electronically Filed 

Supreme Court 

SCWC-29491 

08-OCT-2012 

02:12 PM 

NO. SCWC-29491
 

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I
 

CIVIL NO. 05-1-0947
 

LON WILLIAMS, Individually and as Personal Representative


of the ESTATE OF ALACIA WILLIAMS, Deceased,


Petitioner/Plaintiff-Appellant,


vs.
 

MARC HENDERSON and STATE OF HAWAI'I,


Respondents/Defendants-Appellees,


and
 

LORRIE ANN MONIZ and CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU, Defendants,


and
 

STATE OF HAWAI'I, Defendant/Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellee,


vs.
 

KARIN R. WILLIAMS; CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU; and GIRL SCOUT


COUNCIL OF HAWAI'I, Third-Party Defendants-Appellees.
 

CIVIL NO. 05-1-0846
 

ALAN GOTO, Individually and as Personal Representative of the


ESTATE OF RYAN GOTO, Deceased; DAVID BEGA; and PAUL JAVIER,


Petitioners/Plaintiffs-Appellants,


vs.
 

MARC HENDERSON; KARIN R. WILLIAMS; GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF HAWAI'I;


STATE OF HAWAI'I, Respondents/Defendants-Appellees,


and 


LORRIE ANN MONIZ, Defendant,


and
 

STATE OF HAWAI'I, Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellee,


vs.
 

CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU, Third-Party Defendant-Appellee.
 
CIVIL NO. 05-1-1045
 

KARIN WILLIAMS, Petitioner/Plaintiff-Appellant,


vs.
 

MARC HENDERSON; STATE OF HAWAI'I,


Respondents/Defendants-Appellees,


and
 

LORRIE ANN MONIZ, Defendant,


and
 

STATE OF HAWAI'I, Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellee,


vs.
 

CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU, Third-Party Defendant-Appellee.
 

CIVIL NO. 05-1-0883
 

GEORGIE-ANN GOTO, Individually and as Guardian of the Property


of BOWEN GOTO, a minor, Petitioner/Plaintiff-Appellant,


vs.
 

MARC HENDERSON; KARIN R. WILLIAMS; GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF HAWAI'I;


STATE OF HAWAI'I, Respondents/Defendants-Appellees,


and
 

STATE OF HAWAI'I, Cross-Plaintiff,
 

vs.
 

CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU, Cross-Defendant.
 

CERTIORARI TO THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS
 

(ICA NO. 29491; CIV. NOS. 05-1-0947, 05-1-0846,


05-1-1045 and 05-1-0883)
 

ORDER REJECTING APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
 

(By: Nakayama, Acoba, and Pollack, JJ., and Circuit


Judge Castagnetti, in place of McKenna, J., recused,


with Recktenwald, C.J., dissenting)
 

The Application for Writ of Certiorari filed on August
 

24, 2012 by Petitioners/Plaintiffs-Appellants Alan Goto;
 

Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Ryan
 

Goto, Deceased; David Bega; Paul Javier; Lon Williams,
 

Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of
 

Alacia Williams; Karin Williams, and Georgie-Ann Goto, 


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Individually and as Guardian of the Property of Bowen Goto is
 

hereby rejected.
 

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, October 8, 2012. 

James J. Bickerton,

for petitioners Alan Goto,

David Bega, and Paul Javier

 /s/ Paula A. Nakayama 

 

/s/ Simeon R. Acoba, Jr. 

/s/ Richard W. Pollack 

/s/ Jeannette H. Castagnetti 

James T. Leavitt, Jr., for

petitioner Georgie-Ann Goto

Charles J. Ferrera, for

petitioner Karin Williams 

Robin M. Kishi and Caron 

M. Inagaki, for respondent

State of Hawai'i 

DISSENT BY RECKTENWALD, C.J.
 

I respectfully dissent. For the reasons articulated in 


Chief Judge Nakamura’s dissenting opinion in Williams v.
 

Henderson, No. 29491, 2012 WL 1951389 (App. May 31, 2012) (SDO),
 

I would grant the petitioners’ application. 


/s/ Mark E. Recktenwald
 

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