STATE EX REL. COOPER TIRE & RUBBER CO. v. Nixon

Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. (“Cooper Tire”) seeks a writ of prohibition prohibiting enforcement of a judgment imposing obligations on it to maintain and index certain confidential documents. Cooper Tire also seeks to prohibit enforcement of the order of contempt Respondent imposed on it because it failed to comply with the judgment. 1

For the reasons expressed in Thera Oleta Lavelock, et al. v. Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., et al., 169 S.W.3d 865, 2005 WL 1804886 (Mo. banc 2005) (No. SC86904, decided Aug. 2, 2005), Cooper Tire’s direct appeal of the judgment, this Court struck from the judgment the…