COLLINS v. BRADEN

No. 2011-SC-000770-MR.

384 S.W.3d 154 (2012)

Vanda COLLINS (Individually and as Executrix of the Estate of Roy Collins), Appellant v. Honorable Paul BRADEN, Judge, Whitley Circuit Court (Now Deceased), Appellee. and Baptist Regional Medical Center, as an unincorporated division operating under the assumed name of Baptist Healthcare System, Inc.; Shahzad Shahmalak, M.D.; Unknown Nurses; Unknown Physicians; Unknown Psychologists; and Unknown Psychiatrists, Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

October 25, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Scott Madden , Morgan, Madden, Brashear, Collins & Yeast, PLLC, Manchester, KY, Daniel G. Yeast , Morgan, Madden, Brashear, Collins & Yeast, PLLC, Somerset, KY, Counsel for Appellant.

Honorable Paul Braden, Judge (Now Deceased), Honorable Paul Kenton Winchester , Judge, Now Sitting, Whitley Circuit Court, Whitley Circuit Court, Williamsburg, KY, Appellee.

Barbara Jean Meritt Bowers , Piper & Bowers, Lexington, KY, Charles J. Cronan, IV , Jamie Kristin Neal , Julie Marie McDonnell , Stites & Harbison, PLLC, Louisville, KY, Counsel for Real Party in Interest, Baptist Regional Medical Center.

Robert Franklin Duncan , Jackson & Kelly, PLLC, Lexington, KY, Counsel for Real Party in Interest, Shahzad Shahmalak, M.D.


Opinion of the Court by Justice NOBLE.

The Appellant Vanda Collins asks this Court to reverse the Court of Appeals' decision granting a writ of prohibition stopping the Whitley Circuit Court from ordering the disclosure of various documents that Baptist Regional Medical Center, an Appellee and the Real Party in Interest, claims are protected by the attorney-client privilege. The Court of Appeals found that the documents were privileged and granted the writ. Because...

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