Court Opinion

ID: 9585592
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:01:58.380765+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:20:31.051560
License: Public Domain

*325Hill, Justice,
concurring.
The court below overruled the defendant’s objections to plaintiffs interrogatories and request for production of documents, ordered the defendant to answer and produce, and as sanction for its failure to do so, entered judgment for plaintiff. Defendant has failed to show on this record, as it must as appellant, that the court lacked probable cause for ordering the defendant to answer the interrogatories and to produce the requested document. This, therefore, is not the case in which to consider defendant’s fourth amendment claim.
However, in a proper case we should consider the question of whether the powers of the state (i.e., the civil practice rules relating to discovery) are being used by civil litigants pursuing unsubstantiated claims in violation of the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, and whether the probable cause requirement of the fourth amendment relating to search warrants is applicable to civil discovery procedures and orders.