Cohan v. Ayabe.

Opinion of the Court by

POLLACK, J.

Petitioner Richard Cohan (Cohan) filed a Petition for Writ of Mandamus (Petition) requesting this court to compel the respondent judge to: (1) vacate his order affirming an arbitration decision that compelled Petitioner to sign authorizations for release of medical records, and (2) order that the qualified protective order proposed by Petitioner be utilized instead.

We hold that the privacy provision of the Hawai'i Constitution, article I, section 6, protects Cohan’s health information against disclosure outside the underlying litigation. Therefore we grant…