Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Thomas v. Grant
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided July 21, 2009No. 1 CA-SA 09-0082PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JOHNSEN, Judge.
¶ 1 Protective orders typically bar parties to a lawsuit from disseminating information they receive through discovery. At issue in this special action is a sanction order issued against a non-party to a lawsuit that publicly disclosed information it knew to be covered by such a protective order. Because a protective order generally does not bind a non-party and because the non-party in this ease did not agree to be bound by the order, we vacate the sanction order. 1
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
¶ 2 Lennar Communities Development, Inc. and Sonoran Utility Services,…
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