Toyota Motor Corp. v. Superior Court

KLEIN, P. J., Concurring.

I concur in the lead opinion and its holding that irrespective of Code of Civil Procedure section 2025.260,1 which authorizes a court to permit the deposition of a party or officer, director, managing agent or employee of a party at a location more distant than that permitted under section 2025.250, the superior court is precluded by section 1989 from ordering a nonresident to appear at a California deposition. But I have concurred in the court’s opinion because I agree the present discovery statutory scheme compels the conclusion reached in that opinion. I write…