A Florida appellate court ruled that a personal injury attorney in a “garden variety slip-and-fall case” could not obtain “corporate-wide discovery” on 150 areas of inquiry in a deposition of a Publix Super Markets Inc.’s corporate representative.

“Accordingly, we quash the discovery order to the extent it grants corporate-wide discovery because this amounts to impermissible carte blanche discovery that results in irreparable harm and departs from the essential requirements of the law,” Third District Court of Appeal Judges Norma Lindsey, Fleur Lobree and Alexander Bokor ruled.

Edward Guedes, with Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman. Edward Guedes of Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman.

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