Legal Opinion
Abbott v. Texas Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided August 30, 2006No. 03-04-00743-CVPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
OPINION
DAVID PURYEAR, Justice.
Our opinion and judgment issued on June 16, 2006, are withdrawn, and the following opinion is substituted.
A reporter made a public information request to the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (the “Department”) 1 asking for statistical information regarding allegations of abuse and subsequent investigations of abuse in state facilities and for the names of the facilities in which the alleged incidents occurred. The Department believed that the information could not be released because it was protected health…
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