BAPTIST HEALTH v. CIRCUIT COURT OF PULASKI

No. 07-960.

284 S.W.3d 499 (2008)

BAPTIST HEALTH d/b/a Baptist Health Rehabilitation Institute, Petitioner, v. The CIRCUIT COURT OF PULASKI COUNTY and Evelyn Reichen, by and through her next friend and Attorney in fact Sheila Hinds, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

May 22, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP, by: Donald H. Bacon, Laura Hensley Smith, and T. Michelle Ator, Little Rock, for petitioner.

Dustin McDaniel, Att'y Gen., by: Carolyn Boies Nitta, Ass't Att'y Gen., for respondent.

Dover Dixon Horne PLLC, by: Michael G. Smith, Little Rock, for separate respondent Evelyn Reichen.

Wilkes & McHugh, P.A., by: Susan Nichols Estes and David L. Eanes, Little Rock, for amicus curiae Arkansas Advocates for Nursing Home Residents.

Elisa M. White, Little Rock, for amicus curiae Arkansas Hospital Association.

Brian G. Brooks, Attorney at Law, PLLC, by: Brian G. Brooks, Greenbrier, for amicus curiae Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association.

The Brad Hendricks Law Firm, brief filed by amicus curiae George Wise, Jr., Little, Rock.


TOM GLAZE, Justice.

Baptist Health, doing business as Baptist Health Rehabilitation Institute (BHRI), has petitioned this court for a writ of certiorari directed to the Circuit Court of Pulaski County. BHRI contends that the circuit court has acted in excess of its jurisdiction in ordering it to disclose certain documents that the hospital contends are privileged.

Respondent, 79-year-old Evelyn Reichen, presented...

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