Hawaii procedural guides

Plain-English guides to the Hawaii Rules of Civil Procedure, each one tied to the rules it relies on. Every rule named in a guide has its own page with the official text.

• Responding to a Hawaii complaint: 20 days, 18 days' notice for every motion, and 60 interrogatories comingHawaii gives 20 days to answer, requires 18 days' notice for any motion under Rule 6(d), and allows 60 interrogatories — with 45 days for a defendant to answer them.
• Hawaii summary judgment: 50 days before trial, 18 before the hearing, 8 to oppose, 3 to replyHaw. R. Civ. P. 56 sets a hard 50-day-before-trial deadline for any summary judgment motion, then runs an 18/8/3 hearing schedule — and Rule 56(h) requires a partial order to name every claim and party it disposes of.
• Amending a Hawaii pleading: Ramseyer formatting, the whole pleading, and then a clean copyHawaii Rule 15(a)(2) requires a motion to amend to attach the proposed pleading in Ramseyer formatting — additions underscored, deletions bracketed and stricken — reproduced in full, then refiled clean once allowed.
• Setting aside a Hawaii judgment: six grounds, one year, and a deadline the court cannot extendHawaii Rule 60(b) gives six grounds for relief from a judgment with a one-year cap on the first three — and Rule 6(b) forbids the court from enlarging the time to bring the motion at all.
• Hawaii post-judgment motions: 10 days, six deadlines the court cannot move, and grounds drawn from historyHawaii Rule 59 gives 10 days to move for a new trial or to alter or amend a judgment, defines the grounds by reference to historic law and equity practice, and Rule 6(b) forbids extending any of it.
• Hawaii discovery: initial disclosures in 14 days, 45 days for a defendant, and 60 interrogatoriesHawaii requires initial disclosures within 14 days of the Rule 26(f) conference, gives a defendant 45 days to answer the first written discovery, and allows 60 interrogatories counting every subpart.
• The Hawaii motion to dismiss: twenty days to answer, ten after a denialHawaii Rule 12(b) carries the familiar seven defenses, gives 20 days to answer, and only 10 days after a motion is denied.
• Hawaii execution: ten days, and post-judgment discovery is limited to depositionsHawaii Rule 62(a) bars execution for 10 days after entry, and Rule 69 confines post-judgment discovery to the manner provided for taking depositions.

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