Copin Sastrawidjaya, V Maureen Mughal

Maxa, A.C.J.

¶1 We address the narrow issue of whether a trial court has authority to compel personal injury plaintiffs to sign stipulations and authorizations allowing the defendant to obtain their medical records. We hold that the civil discovery rules do not provide a trial court with that authority. Therefore, we hold that the trial court erred in this case by ordering plaintiffs Copin Sastrawidjaya and Rianne Matheos to sign medical record stipulations requested by defendant Maureen Mughal. We reverse the trial court’s discovery order compelling Sastrawidjaya and Matheos to sign…