Northside Hospital Inc. v. E. Kendrick Smith

I respectfully dissent. Because the Authority has certain official, governmental responsibilities, and Northside is the vehicle through which the Authority discharges those responsibilities, and Northside entered the transactions described in the documents at issue in the course of its discharge of those responsibilities, I would hold that those documents were indeed prepared and maintained or received by Northside on behalf of the Authority. And I would therefore hold that those documents are subject to the Open Records Act.

The lease-transfer agreement, as a matter of law, cannot shield…