Electronically Filed Supreme Court SCWC-28857 03-AUG-2011 12:35 PM NO. SCWC-28857 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI#I

DAVID GARNER, ALLAN KLITERNICK, JO JENNIFER GOLDSMITH and DAVID HUDSON, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Petitioners/Plaintiffs-Appellants, vs. STATE OF HAWAI#I, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Respondent/Defendant-Appellee.

CERTIORARI TO THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS (ICA NO. 28857; CIV. NO. 07-1-1480) ORDER REJECTING APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI (By: Duffy, J., for the court1) Petitioners/Plaintiffs-Appellants’ application for writ of certiorari, filed on June 28, 2011, is hereby rejected.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai#i, August 3, 2011.

Paul Alston, FOR THE COURT: Peter S. Knapman, Mei-Fei Kuo, and /s/ James E. Duffy, Jr. Bruce H. Wakuzawa for petitioners/ Associate Justice plaintiffs-appellants on the application and reply Deirdre Marie-Iha, Deputy Solicitor General, for respondent/defendant- appellee on the response Considered by: Recktenwald, C.J., Nakayama, Duffy, and McKenna, JJ. and Circuit Judge Garibaldi, in place of Acoba, J., recused.