Alfonso Ignacio Viggers v. Maria De La Merced Viggers

Whether a plaintiff has been deprived of the equal protection of the laws where, under defendant's belated pretext of mental illness, a court favors the defendant despite evidence of (1) defamation per se made with actual malice; and (2) defendant's tortious interference in the forms of harassment and defamation as intervening -and perhaps proximate- cause in the loss of plaintiff's business relationship and expectancy. Whether deprivation of due process occurs where (1) discovery on a central non-party's heavily redacted records is precluded notwithstanding the non-party's silent fraud, its inconsistencies under oath, and the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege; (2) the court ignores the central non-party's deliberate failure to produce a key witness despite an order by the court; (3) discovery on Respondent's husband is precluded under pretext of spousal privilege notwithstanding (i) that some of the discovery transcends the scope of spousal privilege, and (ii) the husband's subsequent acts to harm Petitioner forfeit the privilege; (4) the court precludes for no actual reason the discovery on the header information of Respondent's email activity, which she uses for much of her unlawful activity; and (5) the trial judge should have recused herself from the instant case due to (i) her vested interests in the central non-party, and (ii) her domestic involvement in a situation similar to Respondent's mental illness.