Preble v. Board of Trustees

*500Opinion of the Court by

LEVINSON, J.

In these consolidated appeals, the petitioners-appellants-appellants/plaintiffs-appellants Duane Preble and Marion Everson [hereinafter, collectively, “the Appellants”] appeal from: (1) the October 3, 2003 judgment of the circuit court of the first circuit, the Honorable Virginia Lea Crandall presiding, in favor of the respondent-appellee-appellee/de-fendant-appellee Employees’ Retirement System of the State of Hawaii (ERS), the appellee-appellee/defendant-appellee Board of Trustees of the ERS [hereinafter, “the Board”], and the defendant-appellee David…