Hallmark v. Scott Paper Co.

On Application for Rehearing

LYONS, Justice.

The opinion of June 9, 2000, is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor.

William Hallmark is a plaintiff in a workers’-compensation action pending in the Mobile Circuit Court. He had been employed by Scott Paper Company, now known as Kimberly-Clark Corporation. *179Kimberly-Clark seeks a writ of prohibition directing Judge Edward B. McDermott not to reopen Hallmark’s workers’-compensation case and to vacate his order of September 20, 1999, setting an evidentiary hearing on Hallmark’s condition. For the reasons discussed below, we grant the…