Legal Opinion
O'CONNOR v. Diocese of Honolulu
Hawaii Supreme Court
Decided November 23, 1994No. 17546PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOON, Chief Justice.
Plaintiff-appellant John J. O’Connor appeals from an order granting a motion to dismiss his complaint against defendants-ap-pellees “The Diocese of Honolulu” (the Diocese), 1 Joseph A. Ferrario, then-Bishop of the Diocese, and Joseph Bukoski, III, Judicial Vicar of the Diocese (collectively, appel-lees). For reasons discussed below, we affirm.
I.FACTUAL BACKGROUND
This case involves a dispute primarily between O’Connor and Ferrario. O’Connor published a newspaper called The Catholic Lay Press, a paper he characterized as “printing the truth and ... in competition with the…
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