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EX PARTE ALABAMA DEPT. OF HUMAN RESOURCES

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719 So.2d 194 (1998)

Ex parte ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES. (In re Patricia HARRIS v. LIBERTY NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 29, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Coleman Campbell and James E. Long, asst. attys. gen., Department of Human Resources, for petitioner.

Robert H. Rutherford and David A. Elliott of Burr & Forman, L.L.P., Birmingham, for respondent.

LYONS, Justice.

The Alabama Department of Human Resources ("DHR") petitions this Court for relief from a discovery order. Although DHR has styled its petition to this Court as a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals, we believe it is more appropriate to treat the petition as one for a writ of mandamus directed to the circuit court.

In March 1996, Patricia Harris sued Liberty National Life Insurance Company, stating fraud claims and...

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