Island Tobacco Co. v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

NAKAMURA, J.

These interlocutory appeals by both plaintiff and defendants involve the application of several discrete but related provisions of two seldom-used chapters of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, Chapter 480, Monopolies and Restraint of Trade, and Chapter 481, Fair Trade Regulations. The principal questions presented by plaintiffs appeal are whether the circuit court erred in ruling that defendants comprise a single business entity for purposes of antitrust litigation under Chapter 480 and whether the trial court erred in awarding defendants summary judgment on…