Background
The litigation involved McCully Associates, a Hawaiʻi registered limited partnership, its partners and related parties. James Yee Marn, Jr. brought claims as a limited partner on behalf of McCully Associates and its limited partners, and James K.M. Dunn participated as successor trustee of the Annabelle Y. Dunn Revocable Trust.
Thomas T. Ueno intervened in the case and appealed in the Intermediate Court of Appeals. He subsequently filed an application asking the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court to review the matter by writ of certiorari. The brief order does not describe the underlying claims, the Intermediate Court of Appeals’ ruling, or Ueno’s asserted grounds for review.
The Court’s Holding
The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court rejected Ueno’s application for a writ of certiorari, which had been filed on June 15, 2026.
The court did not provide substantive reasoning or address the merits of the underlying dispute. Its order therefore establishes only that discretionary supreme-court review was denied, leaving the Intermediate Court of Appeals proceedings undisturbed.
Key Takeaways
- The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court declined to review Ueno’s appeal.
- The order contains no analysis of the underlying partnership dispute or appellate issues.
- The rejection of certiorari is not a merits ruling on the parties’ substantive claims.
Why It Matters
The order ends Ueno’s effort to obtain discretionary review in the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court in this proceeding. Because the court supplied no reasoning, the order offers no new doctrinal guidance for partnership law or appellate practice.