Court Opinion

ID: 7589553
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 06:42:36.509686+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:24:38.461035
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM.
Avatar Properties seeks certiorari review of a circuit court order which compels production of certain documents and other materials to respondent Pedro Donestevez.
The underlying action, in which Avatar is the plaintiff, is a' mortgage foreclosure. Donestevez’s responsive pleadings included affirmative defenses and a counterclaim, which have been stricken or dismissed by separate circuit court orders. The requested discovery relates only to the affirmative defenses and counterclaim. Since those pleadings appear not to have been refiled, the discovery request is irrelevant at this point and should be denied. Oppenheimer Fund, Inc., v. Sanders, 437 U.S. 340, 98 S.Ct. 2380, 57 L.Ed.2d 253 (1978).
In view of the result we reach, we decline to address Avatar’s additional contention that the discovery order should be quashed as unduly burdensome.
The petition for writ of certiorari is granted, the circuit court’s order compelling discovery is quashed, and this case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
FRANK, A.C.J., and PATTERSON and ALTENBERND, JJ., concur.