State Ex Rel. St. John's Regional Medical Center v. Dally

In an underlying breach of contract suit between St. John’s Regional Medical Center (“St. John’s”) and Missouri Joplin Radiology, Inc. (“MJR”), the Honorable David C. Dally (“Respondent”) ordered St. John’s to “turn over” to MJR certain “peer review materials.” Thereon, St. John’s filed an original petition for prohibition in this court seeking to restrain Respondent from enforcing his order. St. John’s contends that the requested materials are privileged and not- discoverable per § 537.035.1 We issued our preliminary writ which we now quash.

On July 1,' 1990, MJR and St. John’s entered into a…