Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Superior Court

Opinion

WOODS, P. J.

By petition for writ of mandate, Playboy Enterprises, Inc., a nonparty to the underlying civil action, seeks to vacate a trial court order compelling it to produce in discovery all records and editorial materials in its possession concerning an interview of plaintiffs Richard Marin and Thomas Chong from which an article published in Playboy’s monthly magazine was derived. Defendants below, Greene & Reynolds, seek the materials for the purpose of verifying the accuracy of certain statements attributed to plaintiff Marin in the published article, which statements Marin now…