Cahill v. Hawaiian Paradise Park Corporation

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

KID WELL, J.

Emmett Cahill, his wife and his three children brought this action against Hawaiian Paradise Park Corporation, the owner and operator of radio station KTRG, David Watumull, its president, and Donald P. Dickinson, its manager, claiming defamation by certain radio broadcasts. The circuit court granted summary judgment for the defendants, under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii, upon finding “that there is no evidence that any of the state ments in issue were uttered either…