Ex Parte Weeks

HARWOOD, Justice.

Thomas H. Weeks, the plaintiff in an action presently before the Mobile Circuit Court, petitions for a writ of mandamus directing Judge Roderick P. Stout to vacate his February 9, 2001, discovery order. That order requires Weeks to provide the defendants John P. Case, Jr., and Coastal Builders, Inc. (hereinafter “the defendants”), with copies of audiotape recordings made by Weeks of conversations between him and Case, and a conversation between him and Theresa Schmidt, an employee of Coastal Builders, Inc. The order further requires Weeks to provide the copies of the…