Mottl v. Miyahira

Opinion of the Court by

LEVINSON, J.

The plaintiffs-appellants Michael Mottl, Rod Tam, Chris Halford, David Miller, Diane Ferreira, and the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly (“UHPA”) [collectively, “the plaintiffs”] appeal from the first circuit court’s final judgment filed on July 20, 2000, in favor of Earl I. Anzai, the predecessor of the defendant-appellee Neal Miyahira, in his capacity as then-director of finance of the State of Hawaii,1 and the defendant-appellee Benjamin J. Cayetano, in his capacity as the governor of the State of Hawai'i. The plaintiffs argue that the circuit…