Filipoff v. Superior Court

Petitioner Filipoff (hereinafter referred to as the petitioner) seeks mandate to compel the respondent court to vacate one order and to make another in connection with certain 'discovery procedures.

Petitioner sued KTTV, Inc. (the owner and operator of radio station KTTV), and George Putnam (a broadcaster who with his attorney Phill Silver are the real parties in interest herein) for libel, based on certain statements made in discussing petitioner’s activities in conducting the affairs of a trade union of which petitioner was an oficial. As one of his affirmative defenses Putnam pleaded…