Mealey's (September 30, 2022, 4:39 PM EDT) -- DALLAS — A Texas appeals court has granted conditional mandamus relief to orthopedic device maker Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics Ltd. and parent company Smith & Nephew PLC (collectively, Smith & Nephew) for a motion by five metal-on-metal hip plaintiffs to compel deposition of a company representative, ruling that the plaintiffs’ topics are too broad and they seek nonessential information that will not support their stream-of-commerce-plus theory....