A heads up for our Hawaii appellate colleagues: on two separate occasions — in two different cases — the JEFS system has failed to notify us of events in the cases in which we are counsel. 

The first case ended up being automatically “closed” by the system after an opinion by the Supreme Court, even though a post-opinion motion in that court was still pending. We were not provided notice the case had been closed, when we tried to find the case (by searching by case number), we received a “null search/case does not exist” response. Talk about one of those “moments.” Only a call to the Clerk’s office revealed that (1) the case was closed automatically even though the Court had not disposed of the pending motion; and (2) the motion was still under consideration by the Court.  We are still unaware of whether, when the court eventually rules…

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