West Hawaii Today, Inc. v. Honorable Judges

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

BURNS, J.

The lower court has reserved to us via Rule 22 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii the following question: “Whether the newspaper styled and entitled ‘West Hawaii Today’ is a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Hawaii and printed and published in said County.”

Wre do not reach _ne question presented and we dismiss the complaint because we view it as being in the nature of a petition for a writ of mandamus in a situation where mandamus is inappropriate and unauthorized.

Prior to this case, Circuit Judge Ernest Kubota ruled in…