Iturralde v. Hilo Medical Center

Electronically Filed
Supreme Court
SCWC-28792
06-AUG-2012
02:32 PM

NO. SCWC-28792

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAII

WILLIAM RONALD DOLAN, CPA, Special Administrator for

the Estate of ROSALINA ITURRALDE, and MIGUEL FUNES ITURRALDE,

aka MIKE I. FUNES, Successor Personal Representative

for the Estate of ARTURO C. ITURRALDE, Respondents and

Petitioners/Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees,

vs.

HILO MEDICAL CENTER, a Hawaii Non-Profit Corporation,

HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION, a Public Benefit Corporation,

STATE OF HAWAII,

Respondents/Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants,

and

MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK, USA, a Tennessee Corporation

Licensed to do Business in Hawaii,

Petitioner/Defendant-Appellee,

and

ROBERT RICKETSON, M.D., Defendant-Appellee.

CERTIORARI TO THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS
(CIVIL NO. 03-1-0017)

ORDER REJECTING MEDTRONIC’S APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI

(By: Nakayama, Acting C.J., Acoba, and McKenna, JJ.,

Circuit Judge Nacino, in place of Recktenwald, C.J., recused,

and Circuit Judge Kubo Jr., assigned by reason of vacancy)

 Petitioner/Defendant-Appellee Medtronic Sofamor Danek

USA, Inc.’s application for writ of certiorari, filed on June

22, 2012, is hereby rejected.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawaii, August 6, 2012.

/s/ Paula A. Nakayama
Edmund Burke, John Reyes-Burke,
David Y. Suzuki, and Murray Levin /s/ Simeon R. Acoba, Jr.
on the Application for Medtronic.
/s/ Sabrina S. McKenna
Mark S. Davis, Michael K.
Livingston, and Robert P. Marx /s/ Edwin C. Nacino
on the Response.
/s/ Edward H. Kubo, Jr.