Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Superior Court

Opinion

TOBRINER, Acting C. J.

Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company and two of its employees, William Parr and Glenn German, seek a writ of prohibition to restrain the Superior Court of San Diego County from enforcing an order requiring response to 97 questions propounded during pretrial oral depositions 1 on the ground that the questions are irrelevant to the pending litigation. We have concluded that in light of the liberal and necessarily flexible standard of “relevancy” delimiting the arena of discoverable matter, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in ordering the deponents to…