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EX PARTE HOWELL

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704 So.2d 479 (1997)

Ex parte David C. HOWELL and Thelma Howell. (In re David C. HOWELL and Thelma Howell v. NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, et al.).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

January 10, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney W. Jackson III of Jackson, Taylor & Martino, P.C., Mobile; and Wyman O. Gilmore, Jr., of Gilmore & Gilmore, Grove Hill, for petitioners.

Broox G. Holmes, William S. Holman II, and W. Steele Holman III of Armbrecht, Jackson, DeMouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile; and N. Lee Cooper, John N. Bolus, and Michael D. Mulvaney of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham, for respondents.

Algert S. Agricola, Jr., of Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Montgomery; and Cecil H. Macoy, Jr., of Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Birmingham, for Amicus Curiae American Council of Life Insurance.

INGRAM, Justice.

David C. Howell and Thelma Howell petition this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Mobile Circuit Court to vacate its protective order entered on August 11, 1995. The Howells contend that the trial court abused its discretion in limiting discovery in their action against New York Life Insurance Company ("New York Life") and its agents, Bennie Dickey and Sidney Brevard.

A writ of mandamus is an extraordinary writ by which "a party seeks...

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