Wright v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.

Opinion of the Court by

MOON, C.J.

This appeal concerns the sole question whether an employer—in this case, defendant-appellee Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. [hereinafter, Home Depot]—can legally terminate an employee—here, plaintiff-appellant Jon S. Logan Wright—because of his prior criminal record, pursuant to Hawai'i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 378-2.5 (Supp.2002), relating to employers’ inquiries into criminal conviction records, quoted infra. Briefly stated, Wright was terminated from his employment with Home Depot as an associate sales clerk in its lumber department at Kahului, Maui because of his…