UNIVERSITY NAT. STOCK. PRO. COM. v. University Nat. Life Ins. Co.
| Decision Date | 18 May 1964 |
| Docket Number | No. 15655.,15655. |
| Citation | 328 F.2d 425 |
| Parties | UNIVERSITY NATIONAL STOCKHOLDERS PROTECTIVE COMMITTEE, INC., Petitioner, v. UNIVERSITY NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Respondents. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Sixth Circuit |
W. Raymond Denney, Nashville, Tenn., Robert L. Taylor, William M. Walsh, Memphis, Tenn., for petitioner.
John M. Heiskell, Thomas E. Douglas, Jr., Robert L. Dobbs, Memphis, Tenn., for respondents.
Before MILLER, CECIL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.
Certiorari Denied May 18, 1964. See 84 S.Ct. 1335.
A petition has been filed in this Court seeking writs of certiorari and supersedeas, and a writ of mandamus if required, to review an interlocutory order in this case which is now pending in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Western Division, under the style N. E. Dacus, et al. v. Barry M. Carter, et al. The issuance of extraordinary writs by this Court is sought under the All Writs Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1651.
The complaint was filed July 18, 1963. On August 8, 1963, petitioner filed its answer and cross-claim against other defendants. The record shows that various pretrial depositions have been undertaken and a number of motions have been made. Under date of October 24, 1963, the District Judge, the Honorable Bailey Brown, entered an order disposing of ten motions. Petitioner concedes that this order is not a final appealable decision, but is an interlocutory decree from which an appeal will not lie. Petitioner contends that if it is required to comply with the order of the District Court of which it complains, and await review of a final decision, "it will have been severely injured and irreparably damaged in the interim." Relief is sought from the order of the District Judge in: (1) directing the attorney for petitioner to show authority to act in that capacity; (2) overruling petitioner's written motions to expunge and strike from the record the motion of another defendant to take certain pretrial depositions, and to vacate the order of the District Court commanding certain witnesses to appear and give their depositions; (3) overruling petitioner's written motion that his attorney be compensated as a witness as provided by Rule 30(g) (1), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; (4) requiring the attorney for petitioner to produce petitioner's books and records and "work product" for examination; (5) requiring petitioner's attorney to submit to further pretrial examination; and (6) overruling petitioner's motion to require certain other parties to appear and give pretrial depositions.
It is well settled that the supplementary relief powers granted to Courts of Appeals by the All Writs Statute are meant to be used only in exceptional cases where there is a clear abuse of discretion or usurpation of judicial power....
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