EX PARTE COOPER TIRE & RUBBER CO.

1050638.

987 So.2d 1090 (2007)

Ex parte COOPER TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY. In re William Keith Dillard, as administrator of the estate of Richard Alan Dillard, deceased; et al. v. Cooper Tire & Rubber Company and Kevin Williams, as administrator of the estate of Elio Lopez Velasquez, deceased.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied January 18, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew H. Lembke, Justin T. McDonald, and Richard H. Monk III of Bradley Arant Rose & White, LLP, Birmingham; and Edward R. Jackson and Richard E. Fikes of Jackson, Fikes, Hood & Brakefield, Jasper, for petitioner.

David H. Marsh and Thomas M. Powell of Marsh, Rickard & Bryan, P.C., Birmingham; and William H. Atkinson of Fite, Davis, Atkinson, Guyton & Burt, P.C., Hamilton, for respondent William Keith Dillard et al.

Jonathan B. Lowe of Lowe, Mobley & Lowe, Haleyville; and Fred Wood of Fred Wood & Associates, Hamilton, for respondent Kevin Williams.


COBB, Chief Justice.1

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company ("Cooper") petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus ordering the Marion Circuit Court to grant its motion for a protective order seeking to limit the discovery of evidentiary materials by the plaintiffs in the underlying action. The underlying action arises from a collision in 2004 between a van driven by Elio Lopez Velasquez and an automobile driven by Richard Alan Dillard. Dillard...

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