FARNUM v. G.D. SEARLE & CO.

No. 68882.

339 N.W.2d 384 (1983)

Kathy FARNUM, Joe Farnum, and Kathy and Joe Farnum, as Next Friends and Natural Parents of Joe Jr., Cory and Michael Farnum, Appellees, v. G.D. SEARLE & CO., a Corporation, Appellant, and Dr. Robert C. Smith, Dr. Raymond Fitzsimmons, and Dr. John Kunciates, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied November 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Lozier, Jr. of Grant, Lozier & Sarcone, Des Moines, and William P. Richmond of Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Fredd J. Haas of Humphrey & Haas, Des Moines, for appellees.

Considered en banc.


McCORMICK, Justice.

The trial court refused to enter a protective order to prevent plaintiffs and their attorneys from disclosing to anyone else or from using in any other case all copies of documents or information acquired by them during discovery of defendant G.D. Searle & Co.'s previously private and unpublished records. We granted interlocutory review of the trial court's ruling. Because we do not find an abuse of the court's discretion, we affirm.

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