If you are completely in the dark about this lawsuit, a good place to start is with the "Frequently Asked
Questions"
The lawsuit was settled on December 20, 2022 when the Plaintiffs agreed the lawsuit to be dismissed
with prejudice. Details can be seen at the Settlement
page.
The lawsuit began on Sept 29, 2020 with the submission of a
Verified Complaint from Keola Kaai Bandmann, Valerie Ann Bandmann,
Ross David Stadnyk, and Marianne G. Farrell.
The resulting legal actions are a complicated
sequence of motions followed by responses interrupted by new motions
and responses before earlier motions are fully resolved. The legal
system does not follow a linear path. To bring some coherence to
these saltatory dynamics, the following figure classifies and colors the actions according to
topic.
The legal actions fall into seven categories or threads: (1) (BLUE) The Initial
Complaint and a request for a judgement on a central issue in the
lawsuit (Count 1), (2) [GREEN] an amended version of the Complaint to ensure
the Plaintiffs have the legal right to sue the Board of Directors,
(3) [ORANGE] a 2nd amended version naming Philip A. Denney as the sole Plaintiff,
(4) [YELLOW] an attempt to supoena the privileged emails between the 2019/2020 and
2020/2021 BoDs
and one of its attorneys, (5) [CREAM] an attempt by the Plaintiff to
disqualify the Defense attorneys, (6) [MAGENTA] of great importance to the
whole of the LCA membership, the removal of Denney as a plaintiff and
the naming of the entire LCA membership as the Plaintiff (aka "Realigning the Parties"), and last but
not least (7) [RED] the pre-trial Settlement that ended the lawsuit.
The "GLOSSes" in bold font are judicial Orders signifying the
termination of the initial motion that began the thread. Notice the
number of Orders that were abjudicated in favor of the defendants.
After viewing the following figure illustrating the
disjointed progress of the lawsuit and the seven categories of actions,
click on the link buttons below for a brief descriptiion of each of the
categories with links to view the actual legal documents.