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        "text": "NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST'S HAWAIʻI REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER",
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        "text": "Electronically Filed",
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        "text": "CAAP-23-0000127",
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        "text": "08-AUG-2025",
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        "text": "07:59 AM",
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        "text": "Dkt. 63 SO",
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        "text": "NO. CAAP-23-0000127",
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        "text": "IN THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS",
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        "text": "OF THE STATE OF HAWAI‘I",
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      {
        "text": "WILLIAM H. GILLIAM, Plaintiff-Appellant,",
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        "text": "v.",
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        "text": "DAN ELLIOTT, a/k/a DANIEL J. ELLIOTT, Defendant-Appellee",
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        "text": "APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTH CIRCUIT",
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        "text": "(CASE NO. 5CC191000045)",
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        "text": "SUMMARY DISPOSITION ORDER",
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      {
        "text": "(By: Nakasone, Chief Judge, Wadsworth and McCullen, JJ.)",
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      {
        "text": "In this second appeal,1 self-represented Plaintiff-",
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      {
        "text": "Appellant William H. Gilliam (Gilliam) challenges an order",
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      },
      {
        "text": "denying his request to continue a hearing on Defendant-Appellee",
        "paragraph_id": "para_20"
      },
      {
        "text": "Dan Elliott's (Elliott) motion to dismiss, and the subsequent",
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      {
        "text": "order granting dismissal. We vacate and remand.",
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      },
      {
        "text": "1 In the prior appeal, Gilliam v. Elliott, NO. CAAP-19-0000767,",
        "paragraph_id": "para_23"
      },
      {
        "text": "2022 WL 2189308, at *5 (Haw. App. June 17, 2022) (SDO), this court affirmed a",
        "paragraph_id": "para_24"
      },
      {
        "text": "grant of summary judgment on all claims, except for the \"Unfair and Deceptive",
        "paragraph_id": "para_25"
      },
      {
        "text": "Trade Practice\" (UDAP) and \"Fraud\" claims.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_26"
      },
      {
        "text": "Gilliam appeals from the Circuit Court of the Fifth",
        "paragraph_id": "para_27"
      },
      {
        "text": "Circuit's (Circuit Court)2 February 9, 2023 Final Judgment",
        "paragraph_id": "para_28"
      },
      {
        "text": "(Judgment) entered in favor of Elliott, and January 31, 2023",
        "paragraph_id": "para_29"
      },
      {
        "text": "\"Order Granting [Elliott]'s Motion to Dismiss Complaint Filed",
        "paragraph_id": "para_30"
      },
      {
        "text": "March 22, 2019\" (Dismissal Order).",
        "paragraph_id": "para_31"
      },
      {
        "text": "While Gilliam's Opening Brief lacks an \"Argument\"",
        "paragraph_id": "para_32"
      },
      {
        "text": "section and his \"Points of Error\" section does not fully comply",
        "paragraph_id": "para_33"
      },
      {
        "text": "with Hawaiʻi Rules of Appellate Procedure (HRAP) Rule 28(b), we",
        "paragraph_id": "para_34"
      },
      {
        "text": "are able to discern Gilliam's essential contentions. See Erum",
        "paragraph_id": "para_35"
      },
      {
        "text": "v. Llego, 147 Hawaiʻi 368, 380-81, 465 P.3d 815, 827-28 (2020)",
        "paragraph_id": "para_36"
      },
      {
        "text": "(affording liberal review to pleadings by self-represented",
        "paragraph_id": "para_37"
      },
      {
        "text": "litigants \"to facilitate access to justice\" and to afford",
        "paragraph_id": "para_38"
      },
      {
        "text": "opportunity for appellate review (citation omitted)).",
        "paragraph_id": "para_39"
      },
      {
        "text": "On appeal, Gilliam appears to challenge, among other",
        "paragraph_id": "para_40"
      },
      {
        "text": "things,3 (1) the denial of an \"HRCP 16 conference\" request; and",
        "paragraph_id": "para_41"
      },
      {
        "text": "(2) the denial of his \"Motion to Reschedule Hearing on Motion to",
        "paragraph_id": "para_42"
      },
      {
        "text": "Dismiss\" (motion to continue).",
        "paragraph_id": "para_43"
      },
      {
        "text": "Upon careful review of the record and the briefs",
        "paragraph_id": "para_44"
      },
      {
        "text": "submitted by the parties and having given due consideration to",
        "paragraph_id": "para_45"
      },
      {
        "text": "the arguments advanced and the issues raised, we resolve",
        "paragraph_id": "para_46"
      },
      {
        "text": "Gilliam's contentions as follows.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_47"
      },
      {
        "text": "(1) Hawaiʻi Rules of Civil Procedure (HRCP) Rule 16",
        "paragraph_id": "para_48"
      },
      {
        "text": "conference request: Gilliam points to HRCP Rule 16(b)(1) and",
        "paragraph_id": "para_49"
      },
      {
        "text": "(2) to argue that the scheduling conference under that rule was4",
        "paragraph_id": "para_50"
      },
      {
        "text": "2 The Honorable Randal G.B. Valenciano presided.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_51"
      },
      {
        "text": "3 Gilliam's remaining points of error (Points 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6)",
        "paragraph_id": "para_52"
      },
      {
        "text": "appear to raise arguments pertaining to the motion to dismiss. Because we",
        "paragraph_id": "para_53"
      },
      {
        "text": "conclude the continuance should have been granted and the motion to dismiss",
        "paragraph_id": "para_54"
      },
      {
        "text": "should not have gone forward, we need not reach these contentions. Gilliam's",
        "paragraph_id": "para_55"
      },
      {
        "text": "\"Point 8\" contention regarding his motion for leave to amend filed August 26,",
        "paragraph_id": "para_56"
      },
      {
        "text": "2019, was not raised in Gilliam's prior appeal filed October 31, 2019, and it",
        "paragraph_id": "para_57"
      },
      {
        "text": "is waived.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_58"
      },
      {
        "text": "4 HRCP Rule 16, entitled \"Pre-trial Conferences; Scheduling;",
        "paragraph_id": "para_59"
      },
      {
        "text": "Management,\" provides in pertinent part:",
        "paragraph_id": "para_60"
      },
      {
        "text": "2",
        "paragraph_id": "para_61"
      },
      {
        "text": "\"mandatory\"; the Circuit Court was required to \"set the same on",
        "paragraph_id": "para_62",
        "court_paragraph": 2
      },
      {
        "text": "request\"; Gilliam submitted his September 16, 2022 request for a",
        "paragraph_id": "para_63"
      },
      {
        "text": "scheduling conference; and the Circuit Court erroneously",
        "paragraph_id": "para_64"
      },
      {
        "text": "\"denied\" the request \"with a bold rubber stamp\" on October 4,",
        "paragraph_id": "para_65"
      },
      {
        "text": "2022.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_66"
      },
      {
        "text": "Here, Elliott was served with the March 22, 2019",
        "paragraph_id": "para_67"
      },
      {
        "text": "Complaint on March 27, 2019, and the 90-day time frame specified",
        "paragraph_id": "para_68"
      },
      {
        "text": "in HRCP Rule 16(b) ran from March 27, 2019. HRCP Rule 16(b) did",
        "paragraph_id": "para_69"
      },
      {
        "text": "not apply to Gilliam's request filed September 16, 2022.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_70"
      },
      {
        "text": "(2) Denial of the motion to continue: Elliott's",
        "paragraph_id": "para_71"
      },
      {
        "text": "motion to dismiss the remaining UDAP and Fraud claims was set",
        "paragraph_id": "para_72"
      },
      {
        "text": "for hearing on November 17, 2022. Gilliam argues that the",
        "paragraph_id": "para_73"
      },
      {
        "text": "Circuit Court should have granted his November 15, 2022 motion",
        "paragraph_id": "para_74"
      },
      {
        "text": "to continue the November 17, 2022 hearing due to his illness.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_75"
      },
      {
        "text": "Gilliam points to his \"health declaration\" and attached letter",
        "paragraph_id": "para_76"
      },
      {
        "text": "from his \"board certified treating physician,\" which was also",
        "paragraph_id": "para_77"
      },
      {
        "text": "submitted on November 15, 2022. Gilliam claims that he",
        "paragraph_id": "para_78"
      },
      {
        "text": "experienced a \"genuine health issue\" that made him \"foreseeably",
        "paragraph_id": "para_79"
      },
      {
        "text": "unavailable\" for the hearing.5 Gilliam quotes the following",
        "paragraph_id": "para_80"
      },
      {
        "text": "(b) Scheduling and planning.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_81"
      },
      {
        "text": "(1) Issuing order. Except in cases exempted by the Rules",
        "paragraph_id": "para_82"
      },
      {
        "text": "of the Circuit Courts of the State of Hawaiʻi, the court",
        "paragraph_id": "para_83"
      },
      {
        "text": "must issue a scheduling order after consulting with the",
        "paragraph_id": "para_84"
      },
      {
        "text": "parties' attorneys and any self-represented parties at a",
        "paragraph_id": "para_85"
      },
      {
        "text": "scheduling conference.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_86"
      },
      {
        "text": "(2) Time to issue. The court must issue the scheduling",
        "paragraph_id": "para_87"
      },
      {
        "text": "order as soon as practicable, but unless the court finds",
        "paragraph_id": "para_88"
      },
      {
        "text": "good cause for delay, the court must issue it within the",
        "paragraph_id": "para_89"
      },
      {
        "text": "earlier of 90 days after any defendant has been served with",
        "paragraph_id": "para_90"
      },
      {
        "text": "the complaint or 60 days after any defendant has appeared.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_91"
      },
      {
        "text": ". . . .",
        "paragraph_id": "para_92"
      },
      {
        "text": "(Emphasis added.)",
        "paragraph_id": "para_93"
      },
      {
        "text": "5 William's Reply Brief also asserts, without any citation to the",
        "paragraph_id": "para_94"
      },
      {
        "text": "record, that he flew back to \"Lihue\" on the \"16th and 17th\" and did not",
        "paragraph_id": "para_95"
      },
      {
        "text": "3",
        "paragraph_id": "para_96"
      },
      {
        "text": "passage from Onaka v. Onaka, to support his assertion that his",
        "paragraph_id": "para_97",
        "court_paragraph": 3
      },
      {
        "text": "illness warranted a continuance:",
        "paragraph_id": "para_98"
      },
      {
        "text": "It is customary to grant a continuance on the ground of",
        "paragraph_id": "para_99"
      },
      {
        "text": "illness of a party. We conclude that [the defendant]'s",
        "paragraph_id": "para_100"
      },
      {
        "text": "testimony was necessary for the defense of his case, that",
        "paragraph_id": "para_101"
      },
      {
        "text": "the granting of a continuance would not have unduly",
        "paragraph_id": "para_102"
      },
      {
        "text": "prejudiced the other parties, and that the continuance",
        "paragraph_id": "para_103"
      },
      {
        "text": "motion was not motivated by procrastination, bad planning",
        "paragraph_id": "para_104"
      },
      {
        "text": "or bad faith on the part of [the defendant] or his counsel.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_105"
      },
      {
        "text": "It is the law that where none of the foregoing appear, the",
        "paragraph_id": "para_106"
      },
      {
        "text": "denial of a continuance for illness is abuse of discretion.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_107"
      },
      {
        "text": "112 Hawaiʻi 374, 385, 146 P.3d 89, 100 (2006) (quoting Gaspar v.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_108"
      },
      {
        "text": "Kassm, 493 F.2d 964, 969 (3d Cir. 1974)).",
        "paragraph_id": "para_109"
      },
      {
        "text": "The record reflects that toward the end of the day on",
        "paragraph_id": "para_110"
      },
      {
        "text": "November 15, 2022, two days before the November 17, 2022",
        "paragraph_id": "para_111"
      },
      {
        "text": "hearing, Gilliam filed his motion to continue, declaring that he",
        "paragraph_id": "para_112"
      },
      {
        "text": "was on the U.S. mainland and had an unanticipated \"illness and",
        "paragraph_id": "para_113"
      },
      {
        "text": "emergency.\" He requested \"a reasonable continuance until after",
        "paragraph_id": "para_114"
      },
      {
        "text": "surgery\"; stated that this would \"be without prejudice\" to",
        "paragraph_id": "para_115"
      },
      {
        "text": "Elliott; and referenced his \"treating physician statement of",
        "paragraph_id": "para_116"
      },
      {
        "text": "unavailability\" that was filed in camera. The November 15, 2022",
        "paragraph_id": "para_117"
      },
      {
        "text": "in camera letter stated that Gilliam was treated at a mainland",
        "paragraph_id": "para_118"
      },
      {
        "text": "medical center on November 15, 2022; that Gilliam should be",
        "paragraph_id": "para_119"
      },
      {
        "text": "\"excused from all necessary duties from 11/14-11/18\"; and that",
        "paragraph_id": "para_120"
      },
      {
        "text": "the medical center was \"in the process of scheduling him for",
        "paragraph_id": "para_121"
      },
      {
        "text": "surgery.\"",
        "paragraph_id": "para_122"
      },
      {
        "text": "At the November 17, 2022 hearing on the motion to",
        "paragraph_id": "para_123"
      },
      {
        "text": "dismiss, the Circuit Court noted that Gilliam was not present,",
        "paragraph_id": "para_124"
      },
      {
        "text": "arrive in time for the hearing on the November 17, 2022. The source of these",
        "paragraph_id": "para_125"
      },
      {
        "text": "assertions regarding Gilliam's return flight to Kauaʻi appears to be Gilliam's",
        "paragraph_id": "para_126"
      },
      {
        "text": "declaration appended to the Reply Brief. This declaration is not part of the",
        "paragraph_id": "para_127"
      },
      {
        "text": "record. We do not consider this declaration appended to the Reply Brief, or",
        "paragraph_id": "para_128"
      },
      {
        "text": "the declarations that Elliott appended to the Answering Brief, as none of",
        "paragraph_id": "para_129"
      },
      {
        "text": "them are part of the record below or the record on appeal. See HRAP Rule",
        "paragraph_id": "para_130"
      },
      {
        "text": "10(a); Bettencourt v. Bettencourt, 80 Hawaiʻi 225, 229 n.2, 909 P.2d 553,",
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      },
      {
        "text": "557 n.2 (holding that matters outside the record on appeal may not be",
        "paragraph_id": "para_132"
      },
      {
        "text": "appended to an appellate brief).",
        "paragraph_id": "para_133"
      },
      {
        "text": "4",
        "paragraph_id": "para_134"
      },
      {
        "text": "and that it had received Gilliam's motion to continue the",
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      },
      {
        "text": "hearing, as follows:",
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      {
        "text": "THE COURT: You know, and the reason for that is he",
        "paragraph_id": "para_137"
      },
      {
        "text": "submitted a declaration regarding a continuance. And",
        "paragraph_id": "para_138"
      },
      {
        "text": "attached to the declaration, there was an excuse from 11-14",
        "paragraph_id": "para_139"
      },
      {
        "text": "to 11-18. And there was a discussion about a possible",
        "paragraph_id": "para_140"
      },
      {
        "text": "surgery that could occur. Or scheduling of a surgery. But",
        "paragraph_id": "para_141"
      },
      {
        "text": "I thought depending on when the surgery was scheduled,",
        "paragraph_id": "para_142"
      },
      {
        "text": "there would be a window for us to actually deal with this",
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        "text": "matter even if I continued it until next week.",
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        "text": "But given that Mr. Gilliam may not be present today .",
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        "text": ". .",
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        "text": "(Ellipses in original.) The Circuit Court then noted that while",
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        "text": "Gilliam made the motion to continue, he \"didn't physically",
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        "text": "Zoom\" or \"even by telephone.\" Elliott's counsel responded that",
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        "text": "when Gilliam called her office \"less than 48 hours ago . . .",
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        "text": "asking for a continuance[,]\" she told Gilliam that she \"could",
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        "text": "Court and that maybe he can appear by video-conferenc[e].\" The",
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        "text": "Circuit Court then ruled: \"So on the motion to continue, he's",
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        "text": "not here to advocate for his own motion. So the Court's going",
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        "text": "to deny the motion.\" The Circuit Court then took up the motion",
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        "text": "to dismiss, and granted it because Gilliam was \"not here on the",
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        "text": "motion to dismiss[.]\" The Circuit Court later filed its January",
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        "text": "31, 2023 \"Order Denying with Prejudice [Gilliam]'s Motion to",
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        "text": "Reschedule Hearing on Motion to Dismiss\" (Order Denying",
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        "text": "Continuance) and the Dismissal Order.",
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        "text": "Here, the record as of November 17, 2022 when the",
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        "text": "motion to continue was heard, reflects that Gilliam had set",
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        "text": "forth a medical reason and attached a medical note to explain",
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        "text": "his absence at the hearing. The medical note indicated that",
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        "text": "Gilliam should be excused from necessary duties from November 14",
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        "text": "to 18, 2022. This time period included the hearing date. Under",
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        "text": "these circumstances, we conclude that the Circuit Court acted",
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        "text": "on Gilliam's failure to appear. See id. at 378, 146 P.3d at 93",
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        "text": "(reviewing grant or denial of a continuance for abuse of",
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        "text": "discretion). Accordingly, we reverse the January 31, 2023 Order",
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        "text": "Denying Continuance. On remand, the motion to dismiss should be",
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        "text": "For the foregoing reasons, we vacate the Circuit Court",
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        "text": "of the Fifth Circuit's February 9, 2023 Judgment, and",
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        "text": "consistent with this Summary Disposition Order.",
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        "text": "DATED: Honolulu, Hawai‘i, August 8, 2025.",
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