CAPUA v. WEYERHAEUSER CO.

No. 26369.

184 P.3d 191 (2008)

Lani CAPUA, Petitioner/Claimant-Appellant, v. WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY, Respondent/Employer-Appellee, Self-Insured.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

As Amended May 29, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis W.S. Chang, Honolulu, for petitioner/claimant-appellant.

Ronald Y.K. Leong (Dan Ko Obuhanych, with him on the briefs) (of Watanabe Ing Kawashima & Komeiji), Honolulu, for respondent/employer-appellee.

Dorothy Sellers, State Solicitor General, for amicus curiae State of Hawai`i.

MOON, C.J., LEVINSON, and DUFFY, JJ.; ACOBA, J., concurring separately, with whom NAKAYAMA, J., joins.


Opinion of the Court by MOON, C.J.

On February 27, 2008, this court accepted a timely application for a writ of certiorari, filed by petitioner/ claimant-appellant Lani Capua on January 24, 2008, requesting this court review the Intermediate Court of Appeals' (ICA) October 26, 2007 judgment on appeal, entered pursuant to its September 27, 2007 summary disposition order (SDO). Therein, the ICA affirmed the December 30, 2003 decision and order of the Labor and Industrial...

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