Legal Opinion
Lund v. Donahoe
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided July 28, 2011No. 1 CA-SA 11-0026, 1 CA-SA 11-0030, 1 CA-SA 11-0036PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SWANN, Judge.
¶ 1 In this guardianship proceeding, an expert witness complained to the court about the burden posed by a subpoena for records. Within days, the court sua sponte set a show-cause hearing concerning possible sanctions. Before the hearing, the court announced its view that the subpoena represented an abuse of the discovery process and had been served as a means of harassing the witness. At the show-cause hearing, the court issued an order of confinement that resulted in a lawyer being handcuffed in open court when he declined to answer questions under oath that would have…
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