Tilton v. Marshall

in which GONZALEZ, HECHT, SPECTOR, OWEN, and ABBOTT, Justices, join and a plurality opinion as to the remaining portions of Section I in which SPECTOR, OWEN, and ABBOTT, Justices, join.

We grant relators’ motion for rehearing in part and withdraw our prior opinions and judgment, and substitute the following opinion in its place.1

Based on their constitutional rights, rela-tors complain that the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to dismiss the claims of the plaintiffs in the underlying suit, or, at least, in ordering the production of certain allegedly protected documents. Because we…