State Ex Rel. Kubatzky v. Holt

SIMEONE, Judge.

This proceeding involves the interesting but limited question of whether in an action for compensatory and punitive damages the trial court on pretrial discovery may seal the answers of defendants relating to their net worth so that relator and counsel may not examine them until a sub-missible case is made, at trial, on the issue of punitive damages.

This is an original action in prohibition 1 in which the relator, Woodrow Kubatzky, seeks to prohibit the respondent-judge from continuing a protective order 2 whereby answers to interrogatories relating to the gross earnings,…