PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW MEXICO v. LYONS

No. 20,575.

10 P.3d 166 (2000)

129 N.M. 487

2000-NMCA-077

PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW MEXICO and Mellon Bank, N.A., Trustee of the Public Service Company of New Mexico Master Decommissioning Trust, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. John LYONS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

June 22, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Campbell, Osborn Maledon, P.A., Phoenix, Arizona, James O. Browning, Charles R. Peifer, Browning & Peifer, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, for Appellant Mellon Bank, N.A., Trustee.

David F. Cunningham, Kevin V. Reilly, White, Koch, Kelly & McCarthy, P.A., Santa Fe, NM, for Appellant Public Service Company of New Mexico.

John W. Boyd, Freedman, Boyd, Daniels, Hollander, Goldberg & Cline, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, Richard A. Rosen, Ronald P. Replogle, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY, for Appellee The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.

Mel E. Yost, Christopher M. Grimmer, Scheuer, Yost & Patterson, P.C., Santa Fe, NM, for Appellee Lloyd Williams.

Jeffrey A. Brannen, Wesley G. Handy, Comeau, Maldegen, Templeman & Indall, L.L.P., Santa Fe, NM, for Appellee Kidder Peabody & Co., Inc.

John M. Eaves, Eaves, Bardacke & Baugh, Albuquerque, NM, David H. Paige, Nicoletti, Hornig & Sweeney, New York, NY, for Appellee John Lyons, Financial Marketing Services, Inc. and COMReP, Inc.

Lyman G. Sandy, Miller, Stratvert, Torgerson & Schlenker, Albuquerque, NM, Vaughn C. Williams, Skaaden, Arps, Slate, et al., New York, NY, Alan R. Fridkin, Springfield, MA, for Appellee Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. and Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Luis G. Stelzner, Robert P. Warburton, Sheehan, Sheehan & Stelzner, Albuquerque, NM, for Appellee Bernard Spereman.

Marshall G. Martin, Stanley Kotovsky, Jr., Hinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield & Hensley, L.L.P., Albuquerque, NM, for Appellee General American Life Insurance Co.

Rex D. Throckmorton, Charles K. Purcell, Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, Donald Wall, Squire Sanders & Dempsey, Phoenix, AZ, for Appellee New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

William C. Madison, Madison, Harbour & Mroz, Albuquerque, NM, Ralph B. Levy, Daniel R. King, King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA, for Appellee Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, Inc.

John B. Pound, Herrera, Long & Pound, P.A., Santa Fe, NM, Frank B. Vanker, Richard D. Bernstein, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, IL, for Appellee Deloitte & Touche USA LLP.

Norman S. Thayer, Sutin, Thayer & Browne, Albuquerque, NM, Edward G. Warin, McGrath, North, Mullin & Kratz, P.C., Omaha, NE, for Appellee Kutak Rock & P. Thomas Pogge.


OPINION

APODACA, Judge.

{1} In this interlocutory appeal, Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) and Mellon Bank (Bank) challenge the trial court's order concerning discovery requested by Defendants of various documents in Plaintiffs' possession. The court's order determined that Plaintiffs had implicitly waived their attorney-client privilege and work product protection by affirmatively pleading fraudulent concealment, equitable tolling, and...

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