BRIARCLIFF NURSING HOME, INC. v. TURCOTTE

1012193 and 1012195.

894 So.2d 661 (2004)

BRIARCLIFF NURSING HOME, INC., d/b/a Integrated Health Services at Briarcliff, and James Anthony Clements v. David TURCOTTE, executor of the estate of Noella Turcotte, deceased. Briarcliff Nursing Home, Inc., d/b/a Integrated Health Services at Briarcliff, and James Anthony Clements v. Kyra L. Woodman, administratrix of the estate of Sarah Carter, deceased.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 25, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Mitchell Frost, Jr., and Champ Lyons III of Ferguson, Frost & Dodson, LLP, Birmingham (brief on application for rehearing filed by J. Mitchell Frost, Jr., Neal D. Moore III, and Rachel R. Thompson of Ferguson, Frost & Dodson, LLP, Birmingham), for appellants.

Robert L. Pittman of Beasley, Allen Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., Montgomery, for appellee David Turcotte.

J. Paul Sizemore of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., Montgomery, for appellee Kyra L. Woodman.

Russell Jackson Drake of Whatley Drake, L.L.C., Birmingham; Deborah Zuckerman, Bruce Vignery, and Dorothy Siemon of the AARP Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Michael Schuster, of the AARP, Washington, D.C.; and Edward King of the National Senior Citizens Law Center, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae AARP, National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, and Alabama Silver Haired Legislature, in support of appellees.

Richard J. Brockman and Mary Brunson Whatley of Johnston Baron Proctor & Powell, LLP, Birmingham, for amicus curiae the Alabama Nursing Home Association, in support of the appellants.

Matthew C. McDonald and Kirkland E. Reid of Miller Hamilton Snider & Odom, LLC, Mobile, for amici curiae the Alabama Civil Justice Reform Committee and the Business Council of Alabama, in support of the appellants.

David G. Wirtes, Jr., and George W. Finkbohner III of Cunningham, Bounds, Yance, Crowder & Brown, LLC, Mobile, for amicus curiae National Association of Consumer Advocates, in support of appellees.

Leila H. Watson of Cory, Watson, Crowder & DeGaris, P.C., Birmingham, for amicus curiae Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, in support of appellees.


On Application for Rehearing

PER CURIAM.

The opinion of February 6, 2004, is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor.

Briarcliff Nursing Home, Inc., d/b/a Integrated Health Services at Briarcliff, and James Anthony Clements, the defendants in actions pending in the Shelby Circuit Court, appeal the denial of their motions to compel the plaintiffs David Turcotte, executor of the estate of Noella Turcotte, deceased, and Kyra L. Woodman...

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