Yates v. SUPERIOR COURT IN AND FOR CTY. OF PIMA

OPINION

HOWARD, Judge.

Petitioner, plaintiff in a pending superior court medical malpractice action, seeks an order setting aside the decision of a medical liability review panel and granting her a new panel hearing. She claims that the respondent judge abused her discretion in denying a motion for continuance and exceeded her authority in not honoring the presiding judge’s appointment of the lawyer-member of the panel. We find the circumstances warrant intervention by special action and therefore assume jurisdiction.

Petitioner filed her medical malpractice suit on February 15, 1978. An order…