Yates v. Keane

Plaintiff Laurie Yates contracted with defendants to act as a surrogate mother for defendants’ clients. Plaintiffs brought suit against defendants for fraudulent or innocent misrepresentations in the surrogate parenting agreement. Plaintiffs appeal by leave the order granting defendants’ motion to quash a subpoena, to prevent deposition and for a protective order pursuant to MCR 2.305, 2.306(D) and 2.302(C). Plaintiffs argue that the circuit court erred in ordering that they could not seek discovery of a list of all defendants’ clients who had entered into surrogacy agreements and a list of…