Legal Opinion
Wood v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 16, 1985No. Docket Nos. 21801, 22053PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BLEASE, Acting P. J.
In this consolidated proceeding we consider the authority of the Board of Medical Quality Assurance (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 2001) to subpoena the medical records of a physician’s patients without their consent. The board, in the course of investigations of Drs. Wood and Linn (petitioners), issued administrative subpoenas (Gov. Code, § 11181) requiring them to produce the complete medical records of named patients. Each refused to comply and the board sought judicial enforcement of the subpoenas. (Gov. Code, § 11187.) The trial court upheld the board and ordered…
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