(DOWNLOAD) "Kona Enterprises" by Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Kona Enterprises
- Author : Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 06, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 80 KB
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This case involves an award of attorneys' fees to defendants. Plaintiffs Kona Enterprises, Inc. ("Kona"), Tach One, Balanced Value Fund ("BVF"), Wayne M. Rogers ("Rogers"), and Jack Gertino ("Gertino") (collectively "plaintiffs ") appeal the district court's order granting defendants'*fn1 Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(d) motion for attorneys' fees pursuant to Haw. Rev. Stat. S 607-14.*fn2 Plaintiffs challenge the district court's determinations under Hawai'i law that plaintiffs' entire action is "in the nature of assumpsit, " that Rogers, Gertino, Tach One, and BVF are each "losing parties, " and that defendants are "prevailing parties." Plaintiffs also challenge the district court's decision denying their motion for reconsideration by which plaintiffs raised a choice-of-law issue for the first time.