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EMERSON ELECTRIC CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S057119.

16 Cal.4th 1101 (1997)

EMERSON ELECTRIC CO. et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; WILLIAM S. GRAYSON et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

December 1, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Hennelly & Grossfeld, John J. Hennelly and Susan J. Williams for Petitioners.

Hugh F. Young, Jr., Jan S. Amundson, Harvey M. Grossman, Sherman Joyce, Crowell & Moring, Victor E. Schwartz, Mark A. Behrens, Nabil W. Istafanous, D. Dudley Oldham, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Alfred W. Cortese, Jr., Kathleen L. Blaner, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold and Keven J. Dunne as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Berglund & Johnson and Daniel W. Johnson for Real Parties in Interest.

Ian Herzog, Evan D. Marshall, Douglas Devries, Roland Wrinkle, Harvey R. Levine, Robert Steinberg, Thomas G. Stolpman, William D. Turley, Mary E. Alexander, Joseph Harbison III, Bruce Broillet, Wayne McLean, Leonard Sacks, Tony Tanke, Lea-Ann Tratten, Steven J. Kleifield, David Rosen, Moses Lebovits, Christine Spagnoli, James Sturdevant, Daniel U. Smith, Deborah David, Lawrence Drivon, Thor Emblem, Rick Simons and David Casey, Jr., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

Code of Civil Procedure section 2025, enacted by the Civil Discovery Act of 1986, permits a party to record testimony at an oral deposition by videotape as well as stenographically. (Id., subd. (l).) It also provides that if a deponent "fails to answer any question," the court has discretion to order that the answer be given. (Id., subd. (o).)

In this matter, defendants sought to compel...

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