Legal Opinion
Estate of Ruchti
California Court of Appeal
Decided February 1, 1993No. B054773PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WOODS (Fred), J.
I
Introduction
Respondents’ trial attorney, Peter M. Williams (Williams), was handed a subpoena for his own deposition on December 13, 1989, by appellant, Richard A. DeSantis (DeSantis), attorney for Robert R. Ruchti II (Ruchti). The subpoena was served during Ruchti’s deposition, in which Williams was doing the questioning. The subpoena set the Williams’s deposition for December 26, 1989.
DeSantis did not respond, as he had promised, to Williams’s overture after a court hearing to discuss the propriety of taking Williams’s deposition. Williams wrote a meet-and-confer…
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