Commonwealth v. Horvatinovic, A.

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• holding that when a defendant engages in the sort of actions that the court has held necessarily involve “conduct in any trade or commerce” within the meaning of HRS § 480- 2(a), it is no defense that those actions constituted or were intermingled with legal services
• “This court may not take it upon itself to add an additional exception that the legislature has declined to adopt.”
• \[a] motion seeking dismissal of a complaint is transformed into a [HRCP] Rule 56 motion for summary judgment when the circuit court considers 5 NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST'S HAWAI#I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER matters outside the pleadings.\
• “Where there is a duty to exercise reasonable care to disclose a matter in question [such as when the duty arises from an attorney’s fiduciary role], failure to disclose the matter is considered a false representation for purposes of the fraud analysis.” (citation omitted)

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