Casuga v. Blanco

Opinion of the Court by

WATANABE, J.

In this appeal, the attorney for Plaintiff-Appellant Virgilio N. Casuga (Casuga) 1 (Ca-suga’s attorney) contends that the Circuit Court of the First Circuit (the circuit court) “erred and grossly abused” its discretion when it imposed a $250.00 sanction against him for facing to comply with a May 31, 2000 order that directed him to “SUBMIT JUDGMENT AS [A] SEPARATE DOCUMENT AS REQUIRED BY HAWAII [HAWAIT] LAW WITHIN 10 DAYS” (the amended sanctions order).

Inasmuch as the record on appeal reveals that: (1) a separate, final, and appealable Default Judgment by…