Electronically Filed

Supreme Court

SCWC-29454

09-DEC-2015

02:07 PM

SCWC-29454 & SCWC-29589

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAIʻI

THOMAS FRANK SCHMIDT and LORINA JHINCIL SCHMIDT, Petitioners and Respondents/Plaintiffs-Appellants and Cross-

Appellees,

vs. HSC, INC., a Hawaiʻi corporation; RICHARD HENDERSON, SR., and

ELEANOR R.J. HENDERSON, Respondents and Petitioners/Defendants-Appellees and Cross-

Appellants.

CERTIORARI TO THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS

(ICA NOS. 29454 and 29589; CIV NO. 06-1-0228)

ORDER REJECTING APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI (By: Nakayama, Acting C.J., McKenna, Pollack, and Wilson, JJ., and Circuit Judge Garibaldi, in place of Recktenwald, C.J., recused)

Respondents and Petitioners/Defendants-Appellees and Cross-Appellants HSC, Inc., Richard Henderson, Sr., and Eleanor R.J. Henderson’s Application for Writ of Certiorari, filed on October 26, 2015, is hereby rejected. It is further ordered that the Petition for Writ of Mandamus, filed on October 26, 2015, is hereby denied as Petitioners failed to demonstrate that they are entitled to such relief. See Kema v. Gaddis, 91 Hawaiʻi 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).

DATED: Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, December 9, 2015. Paul Alston and /s/ Paula A. Nakayama Kee M. Campbell for HSC, Inc. et al. /s/ Sabrina S. McKenna

/s/ Richard W. Pollack R. Steven Geshell and Thomas P. Dunn /s/ Michael D. Wilson for Schmidt et al.

/s/ Colette Y. Garibaldi

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