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SCRIPPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. D022953.

37 Cal.App.4th 1720 (1995)

44 Cal. Rptr. 725

SCRIPPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

August 31, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Weissburg & Aronson, Carol Isackson, Lowell C. Brown and Shirley J. Paine for Petitioner.

Catherine I. Hanson and Christine R. Hall as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Paul J. Pfingst, District Attorney, Thomas F. McArdle and Richard J. Sachs, Deputy District Attorneys, for Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

NARES, J.

The issue before us is whether the statutory prohibition against the discovery of records of hospital staff committees applies when the records are sought to impeach an expert called to testify in a criminal trial. We hold Evidence Code1 section 1157, subdivision (a) provides a broad privilege against the discovery of such records; and, although later enacted subdivision (e) opens the...

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