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JONES v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket Nos. 49630, 50205.

119 Cal.App.3d 534 (1981)

174 Cal. Rptr. 148

RUTH ALICE JONES, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, Respondent; JUDY K. BENNY et al., Real Parties in Interest. JUDY K. BENNY, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, Respondent; ELI LILLY & COMPANY et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

May 28, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

LeRoy Hersh, Wes Wagnon and Hersh & Hersh for Petitioners and for Real Party in Interest Benny.

No appearance for Respondent.

Richard J. Heafey, Peter W. Davis, Judith R. Epstein, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Robert L. Dickson, Roy G. Weatherup, Ralph A. Campillo, Jerry M. Custis and Haight, Dickson, Brown & Bonesteel for other Real Parties in Interest.

OPINION

GRODIN, J.

These consolidated writ matters arise out of a confrontation between a litigant's right to discovery and the privacy rights of a person not party to that litigation. Plaintiff in the underlying suit is a woman who claims injury as a result of her mother's ingesting the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) while plaintiff was in utero. Named as defendants are a number of pharmaceutical companies who are alleged to...

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