Shorba v. Shiro Amioka

OPINION OF THF, COURT BY

MARUMOTO, J.

This is an appeal by Joseph Shorba and Hawaii State Teachers Association (HSTA) from a circuit court judgment dismissing a declaratory judgment action brought by them, as plaintiffs, against Shiro Amioka, superintendent of education, as defendant. The judgment was entered upon defendant’s motion to dismiss for failure of plaintiffs to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.

Shorba was a tenured teacher of the Department of Education (DOE), assigned to Lanikai Elementary School, whose employment contract was terminated without a hearing provided in…