Eckard Brandes, Inc., Counter-Claimant-Appellee v. Randell A. Riley Lee T. Kunimitsu, Counter-Defendants-Appellants, and Kamaaina Pumping, a Hawaii General Partnership, Counter-Defendant. Eckard Brandes, Inc., Counter-Claimant-Appellee v. Randell A. Riley Lee T. Kunimitsu Kamaaina Pumping, a Hawaii General Partnership, Counter-Defendants-Appellants

338 F.3d 1082 ECKARD BRANDES, INC., Counter-claimant-Appellee, v. Randell A. RILEY; Lee T. Kunimitsu, Counter-defendants-Appellants, and Kamaaina Pumping, a Hawaii general partnership, Counter-defendant. Eckard Brandes, Inc., Counter-claimant-Appellee, v. Randell A. Riley; Lee T. Kunimitsu; Kamaaina Pumping, a Hawaii general partnership, Counter-defendants-Appellants. No. 00-15474. No. 01-17307. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted November 5, 2002 — Honolulu, Hawaii. Filed August 11, 2003. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Junsuke Otsuka, Law Offices of Gary Y. Shigemura, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the counter-defendants-appellants. Ernest H. Nomura, Kobayashi, Sugita & Goda, Lonborg, Nomura & Onaga, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the counter-claimant-appellee. relationship with employer. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii; Helen Gillmor, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-98-00779-HG. Before: Mary M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, Arthur L. ALARCÓN, and Raymond C. FISHER, Circuit Judges. OPINION SCHROEDER, Chief Judge: 1 This run of the mill Fair Labor Standards Act case quickly became the unusual case of a claimed…