People Ex Rel. Lockyer v. Superior Court

On this petition for writ of mandate, petitioner People of the State of California seek to set aside discovery orders made by the court related to real parties in interest Cole National Corporation, Cole National Group, Inc., Cole Vision Corporation, Cole Vision Services, Inc., Pearle, Inc., Pearle Vision, Inc., Pearle VisionCare, Inc., and Stanley C. Pearle’s (collectively, Cole’s) request for production of documents and deposition notices directed to the People. The court ordered that the People (1) produce all documents responsive to Cole’s request for production of documents, regardless of whether they were privileged or confidential, unless the People had raised a specific objection as to particular documents; (2) produce documents in the possession of nonparty state agencies; (3) produce without objection documents produced by the People in a separate federal court action that were the subject of a protective order; (4) produce for deposition persons most knowledgeable at nonparty state agencies; and (5) not raise any objections to the deposition notices or at the depositions that were raised with regard to Cole’s request for production of documents.

The People…