Alch v. Superior Court

BIGELOW, J., Dissenting.

I respectfully dissent.

The current petition for writ of mandate is limited to the discoverability of the nonparty objectors’ private information. The objectors are, as the trial court noted, “7,700 [out of 47,000 notified who] ... do not ask for, or want, any part of this lawsuit. They merely want to be left alone.”

It is not disputed that the objectors have a legally protected privacy interest in the categories of information sought. Moreover, the invasion into private information sought here is from persons who are not plaintiffs in the lawsuit which must be given…