Jordan v. Hamada

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

NAKAMURA, J.

The sole question for decision is whether an appeal from an administrative agency to a circuit court was rendered fatally defective by the appellant’s failure to include the name of the agency in the caption of the notice of appeal. We hold that it was not, and reverse the circuit court’s dismissal of the appeal.

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Appellant Theodore B. Jordan is a state employee belonging to an appropriate collective bargaining unit represented by Appellee Hawaii Government Employees’ Association, Local 152, AFSCME, AFL-CIO (hereafter HGEA) for purposes of collective…