Konvalinka v. Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority

OPINION

CHARLES D. SUSANO, JR., J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court,

in which HERSCHEL P. FRANKS, P.J., and D. MICHAEL SWINEY, J., joined.

This is the second time this case, filed by John P. Konvalinka (“the Petitioner”) to force disclosure of public documents, has been before us. In the trial court’s order that generated the first appeal, the court held that the records the Petitioner requested from Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority (“the Hospital” or “Erlanger”) were exempt from disclosure under state law, and pretermitted the question of whether they were exempt from disclosure…