Coward v. Ho

CourtHawaii Supreme Court
DecidedApril 23, 2025
DocketSCPW-25-0000157
StatusPublished

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Coward v. Ho, (haw 2025).

Opinion

Electronically Filed Supreme Court SCPW-XX-XXXXXXX 23-APR-2025 08:52 AM Dkt. 16 ODDP

SCPW-XX-XXXXXXX

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAIʻI

WILLIAM COWARD, Petitioner,

vs.

THE HONORABLE TIMOTHY E. HO, Judge of the District Court of the First Circuit, State of Hawaiʻi, Respondent Judge,

and

HOPE M. RASMUSSEN and CECILIA F.M. RICHARDSON, individually and as Co-Trustees of the Hope M. Rasmussen Trust Dated May 4, 2024; WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Respondents.

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING (1DRC-XX-XXXXXXX)

ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS (By: Recktenwald, C.J., Eddins, Ginoza, and Devens, JJ., and Circuit Judge Kawashima, in place of McKenna, J., recused)

Upon consideration of Petitioner William Coward’s letter to

the court that was filed as a petition for writ of mandamus on

March 13, 2025 (petition), and the record, the petition is

denied. Petitioner failed to establish a clear and indisputable

right to the relief requested and the lack of other means to redress adequately the alleged wrong or to obtain the requested

action. See Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP v. Kim, 153 Hawaiʻi

307, 319, 537 P.3d 1154, 1166 (2023).

It is ordered:

1. The petition is denied.

2. The filing fee is waived.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, April 23, 2025.

/s/ Mark E. Recktenwald

/s/ Todd W. Eddins

/s/ Lisa M. Ginoza

/s/ Vladimir P. Devens

/s/ James S. Kawashima

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