Ex Parte Knox Kershaw, Inc.

Petitioner, Knox Kershaw, Inc. (hereinafter "KK, Inc.), requests this Court to compel the Honorable Mark G. Monteil of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama, to order the defendants, Royce Kershaw, Jr. (hereinafter "Royce, Jr.") and Kershaw Manufacturing Company, Inc. (hereinafter "KM, Co."), to respond to discovery in a civil contempt proceeding. For the reasons set forth below, the writ is granted.

We recognize that this is not the first time we have been called on to review the non-competition agreements made the basis of this contempt proceeding. Although the facts have been well…