Shasteen, Inc. v. Hilton Hawaiian Village Joint Venture

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• this court prefers “giving parties an opportunity to litigate claims or defenses on the merits”
• this court prefers \giving parties an opportunity to litigate claims or defenses on the merits\
• “[A] corporation should be allowed an opportunity to secure counsel before permitting an entry of default against the corporation or, as in this case, dismissing the action[.]”
• “[D]ismissal of a complaint is such a severe sanction, that it should be used only in extreme circumstances where there is clear record of delay or contumacious conduct[.]”
• “[T]here is no indication in the record that the Shasteen corporation’s failure to secure substitute counsel, to attend the settlement conference with counsel, or to reschedule the conference constituted contumacious conduct . . . .”
• “[D]ismissal of a complaint is such a severe sanction, that it should be used only in extreme circumstances where there is clear record of delay or contumacious conduct . . . .” (quoting Lim v. Harvis Constr., Inc., 65 Haw. 71, 73, 647 P.2d 290, 292 (1982))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).