HERMAN v. ROBERTSON

HERMAN v. ROBERTSON
2006 OK 64
145 P.3d 1039
Case Number: 103501
Decided: 09/12/2006

THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA

RAMONA J. HERMAN, Petitioner,
v.
HONORABLE VICKI ROBERTSON et al., Respondent.

ORDER

Original jurisdiction is assumed. Let the writ of mandamus issue in Cause No. CJ-2005-10153, directing the respondent, Honorable Vicki Robertson, to vacate "Journal Entry for Joint Motion for Protective Order Regarding Videotaping Deposition, By Opposing Party and Plaintiff's Motion to Permit Videotaping of Deposition" and to enter an order allowing the videotaping of the deposition of plaintiff, that of her sister and those of the other seven (7) defendants named in plaintiff's motion. Inhofe v. Wiseman,

First

Secondly

Third

The respondent had no legally cognizable basis for granting the protective order and for prohibiting the videotaping of depositions.

DONE BY THE ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT IN CONFERENCE THIS 11TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2006.

/S/CHIEF JUSTICE

WATT, C.J., LAVENDER, HARGRAVE, OPALA, KAUGER, EDMONDSON, TAYLOR and COLBERT, JJ., CONCUR;