State Ex Rel. Williams v. Mauer

Although laudably concerned with the needs of the circuit courts in dealing with “the exceptional problems which are the hallmark of complex litigation,” the principal opinion, in its zeal to uphold respondent’s “order,”1 unfortunately confers upon inferior courts far greater authority than permissible under the Constitution or our Rules of Civil Procedure, impedes access to the courts, and overly restricts rela-tors’ standing.

Relators have standing to challenge Paragraph 12(a) of respondent’s “order” as well as the discovery provisions of the “order.” Harrison v. Monroe County, 716 S.W.2d…