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SMITH v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket Nos. F023736, F023864.

41 Cal.App.4th 1014 (1996)

49 Cal. Rptr.2d 20

DORA A. SMITH, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF FRESNO COUNTY, Respondent; GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Real Party in Interest. MICHAEL D. STEPHENS et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF STANISLAUS COUNTY, Respondent; GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

January 9, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

L.L. Mick McBee, Jr., Bernhard E. Bergesen III, Daniel B. Beck, Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Echeverria, Ronald H. Wecht, Miles, Sears & Eanni, William J. Seiler and Douglas L. Gordon for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondents.

Snell & Wilmer, Richard A. Derevan, Gerda M. Roy, Arthur P. Greenfield, Kirkland & Ellis, Jay P. Lefkowitz, Gerald Masoudi, Parichan, Remberg, Crossman & Harvey, Harold A. Parichan and Deborah A. Coe for Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

BUCKLEY, J.

In this case, we are called upon to decide whether the full faith and credit clause of the United States Constitution requires California courts to enforce a permanent injunction entered by a court in another state in unrelated proceedings which adversely affects petitioners' discovery rights. We answer in the negative. We hold that because the out-of-state injunction...

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