Time International, S.A., Inc. v. Safilo U.S.A., Inc.

SHEVIN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Time International, S.A., Inc., and Rubina de Mexico, S.A., [collectively “plaintiffs”] petition for a writ of certiorari to quash the portion of an order requiring production of a witness, a former employee, or suffer exclusion of the witness at trial, with an accompanying adverse presumption to plaintiffs’ position at trial from the witness’s testimony. We deny the petition.

In Time International S. A., Inc. v. Safilo U.S.A., Inc., 802 So.2d 382 (Fla. 3d DCA 2001), review denied, 823 So.2d 125 (Fla.2002), we reversed a dismissal order, holding that sanction to be too…