Ex Parte Mardis

Betty Mardis petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Honorable N. Pride Thompkins, judge of the Circuit Court of Colbert County, to vacate his order of August 4, 1993, which quashed her civil subpoena to the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations ("ADIR"); the subpoena called for ADIR to produce for Mardis a transcript of the hearing on her own unemployment compensation claim for use in her pending sexual discrimination action against her former employer, Robbins Tire Rubber Company, Inc. ("Robbins"). We grant the writ.

Betty Mardis's employment with Robbins ended on…