GMS Mine Repair and Maintenance v. Jeffrey S. Milkos

LOUGHRY, Chief Justice:

The petitioner (defendant below), GMS Mine Repair and Maintenance, Inc., appeals the circuit court’s interlocutory order entered on March 3, 2016, through which it denied the petitioner’s motion to stay class discovery. Assigning error in the circuit court’s ruling, the petitioner asserts that the stay was sought to promote effective ease management procedures and thereby achieve a just, speedy, and inexpensive resolution of this putative class action. Although the petitioner invites this Court to extend the collateral order doctrine to interlocutory discovery orders…