Morelli v. Superior Court

Opinion

McCOMB, J.

Petitioner seeks prohibition restraining further proceedings on a pending contempt citation and mandamus commanding respondent court to recall and annul certain bench warrants issued by it upon petitioner’s failure to obey a subpoena duces tecum in civil proceedings formerly pending in respondent court.

Petitioner, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, was an expert witness in a civil action filed in repondent court. Upon his failure to appear for a deposition in response to a subpoena duces tecum served upon him, the plaintiffs in the civil action instituted…