County of Kaua'i Ex Rel. Nakazawa v. Baptiste

ACOBA, J.,

dissenting, with whom DUFFY, J., joins.

Dissenting Opinion by ACOBA, J., with whom DUFFY, J., joins.

With all due respect, our role is to protect the judicial process, not to subvert it. In sua sponte deleting Defendant-Appellee Kauai County Council (County Council) as a defendant in this case and adding it back as the putative plaintiff in order to create a supposed controversy between the. County Council and Defendant-Appellee Mayor of Kauai (Mayor) and Defendant-Appellee Finance Director of Kauai (Finance Director), the majority does exactly that, manipulating the lawsuit so as to…