STATE EX REL. BEHRENDT v. Neill

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN PROHIBITION

DANIEL E. SCOTT, Special Judge.

Relators seek to prohibit civil discovery of their attorney-client communications. We issued our preliminary writ and now make it absolute.

Background

Relators, as defendants in a malicious prosecution case pending before Respondent, are alleged to have filed two federal lawsuits without legal or factual basis as part of a multi-year, multi-faceted effort to derail a downtown St. Louis development project and embarrass its potential lenders. 1 After Relators’ federal cases were dismissed, some of those parties (now “Plaintiffs” 2…