New York City Health & Hospitals Corp. v. New York State Commission of Correction

OPINION OF THE COURT

Chief Judge Lippman.

At issue is the enforceability of a subpoena duces tecum issued by respondent New York State Commission of Correction (the Commission) commanding Elmhurst Hospital, a health care facility operated by petitioner New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), to produce its records respecting its care and treatment of one Carlos Frazier, who, at the time of his premortem hospitalization at the Elmhurst facility, was a correctional inmate in the custody of the City of New York. In the proceedings resulting in this appeal, the Commission’s subpoena…