Meek v. Diversified Products Corp.

Larry D. Meek, plaintiff in a lawsuit, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus, challenging an award of attorney fees to the defendant, Diversified Products Corporation, under the Alabama Litigation Accountability Act, §§ 12-19-270 through -276, Ala. Code 1975 (1987 Cum.Supp.). We deny the petition for writ of mandamus.

Meek filed the complaint in this case, his second lawsuit against Diversified, on March 24, 1989. In this second suit he claimed that he had been discharged in retaliation for instituting or maintaining an action for worker's compensation benefits, and that he had been…