TULSA TRIBUNE CO. v. FULTON

Nos. 61254, 61258.

696 P.2d 497 (1984)

TULSA TRIBUNE COMPANY, an Oklahoma corporation, Appellee, v. Robert FULTON, Director of Human Services, Department of Human Services, State of Oklahoma, Appellants. TULSA TRIBUNE COMPANY, an Oklahoma corporation, Appellee, v. OKLAHOMA STATE NURSING HOME ASSOCIATION, INC., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied March 27, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gable & Gotwals by James M. Sturdivant and John Henry Rule, Tulsa, and Andrews, Davis, Legg, Bixler, Milsten & Murrah by Don G. Holladay, Oklahoma City, for appellee.

Department of Human Services by Thomas H. Tucker and Pamela K. Padley, Oklahoma City, for appellant Dept. of Human Services.

Stipe, Gossett, Stipe, Harper, Estes, McCune & Parks by Gene Stipe and Mitchell A. Lee, McAlester, for appellant Oklahoma State Nursing Home Ass'n, Inc.


HODGES, Justice.

This is an appeal from the issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the Department of Human Services (DHS) to open for public inspection the cost reports filed with DHS by the some 362 nursing homes in Oklahoma participating in the Medicaid program, and certain audit reports prepared by DHS concerning some of those homes. Appellee, the Tulsa Tribune, initially sought to examine those reports and was denied...

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