In re Kuraray America, Inc. (Per Curiam)
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The Supreme Court conditionally granted a writ of mandamus in this action arising out of a chemical release at a plant, holding that mandamus is granted to direct the trial court to vacate its orders requiring Kuraray American, Inc. to produce cell-phone data from the employer-issued phones of five employees.
In the order at issue, the trial court ordered production of cell-phone data from two of the five employees for the six-week period before the chemical release. As to the remaining employees, the trial court ordered production of cell phone data for the four-month period before the release. The Supreme Court conditionally granted a writ of mandamus and directed the trial court to vacate its orders requiring production of all five employees' cell-phone data, holding that the orders required production of information as to which relevance had not been established and thus were impermissibly overbroad.
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