Ex Parte Jacksonville State University

William Meehan, Ph.D., Frank Romano, Ph.D., and Jacksonville State University ("the University"), defendants in an action filed by R. David Whetstone, Ph.D., petition this Court for a writ of mandamus, seeking a protective order related to certain discovery, an order prohibiting certain extrajudicial statements by Whetstone and his counsel, and an order sealing part of the trial court's record. We dismiss the University as a defendant, and we grant the petition in part, deny it in part, and issue the writ.

Article I, § 14, Alabama Constitution of 1901, provides "[t]hat the State of Alabama…