Legal Opinion
In Re Nance
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided August 12, 2004No. 03-04-00366-CVPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PEMBERTON, Justice.
In this mandamus proceeding arising out of a medical malpractice death action, we are asked to vacate an order denying a motion to quash a defendant’s request for the deceased’s psychiatric records. Based on the governing law as applied to the present record, we will conditionally grant the writ.
BACKGROUND
Rozene Nance died on August 6, 2002, at the age of forty-three, after undergoing a laparoscopic cholecystectomy 1 performed by Dr. Lan Nguyen at Rollins Brook Community Hospital on the evening of August 5. It is alleged that Ms. Nance presented herself to the…
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