California Court of Appeal

In a suit alleging violations of the Business and Professions Code, plaintiff's petition to set aside discovery orders is granted where the trial court erred as a matter of law in ordering plaintiff to produce documents and witnesses without regard to whether they were privileged.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/29/2004
• Published 09/29/2004

Judges

• NARES, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Andrea Hoch, Assistant Attorney General, Albert Norman Shelden, Susan A. Ruff, Diane de Kervor and T. Michelle Laird, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner., Jones Day, Elwood Lui, San Francisco, Thomas R. Malcolm, Richard J. Grabowski and Mark D. Kemple, Irvine, for Real Parties in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.