Legal Opinion
Sifagaloa v. Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System
Hawaii Supreme Court
Decided November 10, 1992No. 15551PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT BY
LEVINSON, J.
The appellant Apoga Sifagaloa (Sifagaloa), a member of the Employees’ Retirement System (ERS) of the State of Hawaii, see generally Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) ch. 88 (1985) and, in particular, HRS §§ 88-21 and 88-22 (1985), 1 appeals from a circuit court order that affirmed the denial of his application for service-connected total disability retirement benefits under HRS § 88-77 (1985). 2
Sifagaloa urges that his due process rights were violated because the Board of Trustees of the ERS (Trustees) were not unbiased adjudicators, based on their allegedly…
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