Court Opinion

ID: 2742216
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Date Created: 2014-10-14 22:07:29.127179+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:54:47.327959
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Electronically Filed
                                                        Supreme Court
                                                        SCPW-14-0001103
                                                        14-OCT-2014
                                                        09:32 AM

                          SCPW-14-0001103

           IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I

                CHRISTOPHER GRINDLING, Petitioner,

                                vs.

THE HONORABLE JOSEPH CARDOZA, JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE

      SECOND CIRCUIT, STATE OF HAWAI'I, Respondent Judge,

                                and

                   STATE OF HAWAI'I, Respondent.

                        ORIGINAL PROCEEDING

           ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS

(By: Recktenwald, C.J., Nakayama, McKenna, Pollack, and Wilson, JJ.)

          Upon consideration of Petitioner Christopher

Grindling’s petition for a writ of mandamus, filed on September

5, 2014, the exhibit in support of petition, filed on September

19, 2014, and the record, it appears that Petitioner fails to

demonstrate that he has a clear and indisputable right to a

hearing on the seven filings he lists in the petition or that he

lacks alternative means to seek relief.      Petitioner, therefore,

is not entitled to the requested writ of mandamus.      See Kema v.

Gaddis, 91 Hawai'i 200, 204, 982 P.2d 334, 338 (1999) (a writ of

mandamus is an extraordinary remedy that 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).   Accordingly,

          IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for a writ of

mandamus is denied.

          DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, October 14, 2014.

                              /s/ Mark E. Recktenwald

                              /s/ Paula A. Nakayama

                              /s/ Sabrina S. McKenna

                              /s/ Richard W. Pollack

                              /s/ Michael D. Wilson

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