Legal Opinion
Hoke v. Paul
Hawaii Supreme Court
Decided November 16, 1982No. 8023PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT BY
PADGETT, J.
This is an appeal from the granting of a summary judgment in favor of Appellees Guy A. Paul (Paul) and the County of Hawaii (County). We affirm as to Appellee County of Hawaii and reverse as to Appellee Paul.
The second amended complaint, with respect to which the summary judgment was granted, contained two counts. Count I was essentially an action in defamation concerning two documents prepared and allegedly published by Paul. Count II encompassed not only the two publications in question, but a series of acts commencing some 18 or 19 years earlier and…
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