State ex rel. Missouri Ethics Commission v. Nichols

CRANE, Presiding Judge.

Relator Missouri Ethics Commission (M.E.C.) seeks a writ of prohibition prohibiting respondent, the Honorable Grace M. Nichols, from enforcing an order denying a motion to quash a subpoena to produce documents pertaining to a complaint filed with the M.E.C. by the defendant in the underlying action. We issued a preliminary writ of prohibition and now quash our preliminary writ as improvidently granted.

In the underlying action, Ron Entwistle filed an action against Doyle Stokes and Bob Fisher alleging abuse of process, libel and slander, and civil conspiracy. Entwistle…