Bodenheimer

Thomas S. Bodenheimer seeks a writ commanding respondent superior court to refrain from compelling certain discovery.

Real parties in interest, former officers of the Mission Area Health Association, brought suit against four unincorporated associations—the Grass Roots Alliance, the Workers Party for Proletarian Socialism, the Rebel Worker Organization, and the Institute for the Study of Labor and Economic Crisis—and against petitioner and other persons alleging that the defendants conspired to defame real parties in interest. The allegedly defamatory communications are the following:

1. An open letter, on the letterhead of the Institute for the Study of Labor and Economic Crisis, signed by petitioner and two other persons and stating, in part: “The current Mission Neighborhood Health Center board and administration are leading the Health Center to virtual destruction through incompetency, irresponsibility, and illegality.. ..There is strong evidence that administrative corruption is a major element at the Health Center, with Health Center funds going for personal travel, personal meals, and other personal gain.... This attempted election fraud and violation of the…