Douberley v. Perlmutter

An attorney petitions this court for a writ of certiorari to review an order compelling him to answer questions involving attorney-client privilege. He raises both a due process argument and a substantive argument in suggesting the trial court departed from the essential requirements of the law resulting in irreparable harm. We agree with him regarding his due process argument and grant the petition solely on that basis.

The order at issue arises in a defamation case in which the attorney’s client is the plaintiff. Before he filed the defamation action, and giving rise to it,…