Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Alabama Dept. of Mental Health
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided October 26, 2001No. 1001673PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
This petition for a writ of mandamus presents a single question: Are investigative reports made by persons employed by the petitioners — Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation ("DMHMR"), Kathy Sawyer as Commissioner of DMHMR, and Virginia Rogers as the former Commissioner of DMHMR — to act as police officers, pursuant to the provisions of § 22-50-21, Ala. Code 1975, discoverable in a civil proceeding arising out of the death of a patient in a hospital operated by DMHMR?
The trial court, after conducting an in camera review of the various documents and investigative reports,…
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