Carey Canada, Inc. v. Head

Marshall, Presiding Justice.

The petitioner for writ of prohibition, Carey Canada, Inc., is a Canadian corporation which is engaged in asbestos mining operations in Quebec. The petitioner has been sued, along with various other defendants, in a multiplicity of state and federal asbestos product-liability suits in Georgia.

Forty-six of these suits are currently pending in the State Court of Chatham County. The state court judge, Honorable James W. Head, has entered orders requiring the petitioner to respond to certain requests for discovery. The petitioner argues, among other things, that these…