Carehouse Convalescent Hospital v. Superior Court

Opinion

SILLS, P. J.

The adversarial system of justice presumes that the attorneys for each side oppose one another, not depose one another. We issue a peremptory writ because plaintiffs have failed to make the requisite showing of “extremely” good cause to overcome the presumption against taking the deposition of defense counsel Kippy Wroten.

I

Petitioner Carehouse Convalescent Hospital (Carehouse) operates a skilled nursing facility in which Richard Sims (decedent), a 90-year-old man, was being treated during most of 2002 following a stroke. Real parties in interest (plaintiffs) are Sims’s…