Ex Parte American Carpet Sales, Inc.

In a discovery order issued in a fraud action pending in the Mobile Circuit Court, the trial judge required the defendant, American Carpet Sales, Inc. ("American Carpet"), to produce for the plaintiffs all invoices regarding sales it had made over the past five years. Producing those invoices could require American Carpet to manually review at least 30,000 customer files, at a minimum cost of $12,000. American Carpet petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the trial judge to rescind that discovery order, contending that it is overly oppressive, unduly burdensome and expensive, and not…