State Ex Rel. Ford Motor Co. v. Nixon

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN PROHIBITION

RONNIE L. WHITE, Chief Justice.

I

Relator, Ford Motor Company (Ford), seeks a writ of prohibition preventing the Respondent from enforcing an order compelling discovery in a wrongful death action. This Court issued a preliminary writ on November 23, 2004, prohibiting the trial court from taking any further action in this case other than vacating its order to compel and entering a protective order limiting discovery to those matters not already discovered and that are relevant to the cause. The writ, as modified, is made absolute.

II

Roy Dietiker, a former…