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EX PARTE WAL-MART STORES, INC.

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682 So.2d 65 (1996)

Ex parte WAL-MART STORES, INC. (Re Elizabeth THOMPSON v. WAL-MART STORES, INC., et al.).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

July 26, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley R. Byrne, K.W. Michael Chambers and R. Scott Hetrick of McRight, Jackson, Dorman, Myrick & Moore, L.L.C., Mobile, for Petitioner.

Lamar C. Johnson of Gilmore Law Office, Grove Hill, and J. Pery Newton of Utsey, Christopher & Newton, Butler, for Respondent.

Matthew C. McDonald of Miller, Hamilton, Snider & Odom, Mobile, for Amicus Curiae Alabama Retail Association.

KENNEDY, Justice.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the trial court to modify its discovery orders, so as to protect Wal-Mart from having to produce accident and incident reports from all 86 Wal-Mart stores in Alabama for the five years preceding July 27, 1995, the date of the request.

The plaintiff, Elizabeth Thompson, was shopping at the Wal-Mart store in Thomasville on June 26, 1993, when a footlocker fell from...

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