NO. 29681



IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI‘I



GLENN NOBUKI MURAKAMI and ANN SUE ISOBE, Petitioners,

vs.

THE HONORABLE EDEN ELIZABETH HIFO, JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT

COURT OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT, STATE OF HAWAI‘I;

JANELLE KUBO, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT,

STATE OF HAWAI‘I; MICHAEL DAVID SAKATANI; CHRISTINE MARIE

SAKATANI; and 808 DEVELOPMENT LLC, Respondents.




ORIGINAL PROCEEDING

(CIVIL NO. 03-1-1712)




ORDER

(By: Moon, C.J., Acoba, and Duffy, JJ., and Intermediate

Court of Appeals Chief Judge Recktenwald, in place of

Nakayama, J., recused, and Intermediate Court of Appeals

Judge Watanabe, assigned by reason of vacancy)

Upon consideration of the petition for a writ of prohibition filed by petitioners Glenn Nobuki Murakami and Ann Sue Isobe and the papers in support, it appears that the requirements of Jenkins v. Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright, 76 Hawai‘i 115, 864 P.2d 1334 (1994) do not apply to the July 29, 2008 judgment entered in Civil No. 03-1-1712 inasmuch as the July 29, 2008 judgment was not entered pursuant to the separate document requirement of HRCP 58, but was entered pursuant to HRS § 658A-25 (Supp. 2007) as a judgment on the July 29, 2008 order granting the motion to confirm the June 5, 2008 arbitration award. The July 29, 2008 judgment is a judgment on the June 5, 2008 arbitration award and the judgment may be recorded, docketed, and enforced. See HRS § 658A-25(a). Thus, petitioners are not entitled to a writ of prohibition. See Kema v. Gaddis, 91 Hawai‘i 200, 204-05, 982 P.2d 334, 338-39 (1999) (A writ of prohibition is an extraordinary remedy that will not issue unless the petitioner demonstrates a clear and indisputable right to relief and a lack of alternative means to redress adequately the alleged wrong or obtain the requested action.). Accordingly,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition for a writ of prohibition is denied.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai‘i, March 13, 2009.