Sandomire v. Brown

• Court: Hawaii Supreme Court
• Decided: December 2, 2025
• Docket: SCWC-23-0000431
• Status: Published

Opinion

Electronically Filed Supreme Court SCWC-XX-XXXXXXX 02-DEC-2025 08:43 AM Dkt. 7 ODSAC

SCWC-XX-XXXXXXX

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI‘I

DANIEL M. SANDOMIRE; KATY YEN-JU CHEN; TRUDI MELOHN, individually and as Co-Trustee under the William Charles Melohn III Revocable Trust dated June 4, 2010 and Co-Trustee under the Trudi Melohn Revocable Trust dated June 4, 2010; and WILLIAM CHARLES MELOHN III, individual and as Co-Trustee under the William Charles Melohn III Revocable Trust dated June 4, 2010 and Co-Trustee under the Trudi Melohn Revocable Trust dated June 4, 2010, Respondents/Plaintiffs-Appellees,

vs.

DAVID EDWARD BROWN and LANHUA KAO BROWN, Petitioners/Defendants-Appellants.

CERTIORARI TO THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS (CAAP-XX-XXXXXXX; CIVIL NO. 1CC151002267)

ORDER DISMISSING APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI (By: McKenna, Acting C.J., Eddins, Ginoza, and Devens, JJ., and Circuit Judge Jackson, assigned by reason of vacancy)

It appearing that the judgment on appeal in the above-

referenced matter has not been filed by the Intermediate Court of

Appeals at the time the application for writ of certiorari was

filed, see Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes § 602-59(a) (2017); see also

Hawaiʻi Rules of Appellate Procedure (HRAP) Rule 36(b)(1) (2016), IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Petitioners/Defendants-

Appellants David Edward Brown and Lanhua Kao Brown’s application

for writ of certiorari, filed November 28, 2025, is dismissed

without prejudice to re-filing the application pursuant to HRAP

Rule Rule 40.1(a) (2023) (requiring in pertinent part that the

application for writ of certiorari “be filed within 30 days after

the filing of the intermediate court of appeals’ judgment on

appeal or dismissal order[.]”).

DATED: Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, December 2, 2025.

/s/ Sabrina S. McKenna

/s/ Todd W. Eddins

/s/ Lisa M. Ginoza

/s/ Vladimir P. Devens

/s/ Kauanoe A.D. Jackson