Arlington Memorial Hospital Foundation, Inc. v. Barton

OPINION

HOLMAN, Justice.

INTRODUCTION

Relator Arlington Memorial Hospital Foundation, Inc. d/b/a Arlington Memorial Hospital (“the Hospital”) filed this mandamus action after the trial court ordered it to produce what it alleged were privileged medical peer-review documents. Because we find that the Hospital adequately proved, by affidavit, ■ that the documents were indeed privileged medical peer-review documents, the Hospital was entitled to protection from producing those documents. Accordingly, we conditionally grant a writ of mandamus.

Factual and Procedural Background

The real party in…