LEWIS R. PYLE MEM. HOSP. v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. CV-86-0030-SA.

149 Ariz. 193 (1986)

717 P.2d 872

LEWIS R. PYLE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL; Mark Ivey, Jr., M.D.; Robert A. Sorgen, M.D.; Jerome H. Mills, M.D.; Alfonso Munoz, M.D.; Harold M. Mayo; Carroll R. Brown; Raymond K. Schmidt; Mort H. Baskin; Robert P. Donovan; Bernice Gurd, R.N., Petitioners, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF ARIZONA, In and For the COUNTY OF GILA; Hon. E.D. McBryde, a Judge assigned thereto; David Bruce Gilbert, M.D., the Real Party in Interest, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Arizona, En Banc.

April 7, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fennemore, Craig, von Ammon, Udall & Powers by John D. Everroad, Scott M. Finical, William T. Burghart, Phoenix, for petitioner Lewis R. Pyle Memorial Hosp.

Jack J. Rappeport, Lesher & Borodkin, P.C. by Robert O. Lesher, Tucson, for respondent real party in interest David Bruce Gilbert, M.D.


GORDON, Vice Chief Justice.

A petition for special action was filed on behalf of petitioners, Lewis R. Pyle Memorial Hospital, et al, on January 20, 1986. We accepted jurisdiction in order to review a pretrial ruling by respondent judge which held that civil pretrial depositions are not open to the public and which imposed monetary sanctions on petitioners. We have jurisdiction pursuant to Ariz. Const. art. 6 § 5(1).

The facts are as follows. David Bruce...

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