Ferrier-Harris, Ltd. v. Sanders

SIMON, Judge.

Ferrier-Harris, Ltd. d/b/a The Grand Place (Relator), a licensed, long-term care nursing home facility, filed this action in prohibition, seeking to prohibit the Honorable James L. Sanders from proceeding to trial on the personal injury action against it. We issued a preliminary writ of prohibition which we now make permanent.

Where it appears on the face of the pleadings that a defendant is immune from suit as a matter of law, prohibition is the appropriate remedy “to forbear patently unwarranted and expensive litigation, inconvenience and waste of time and talent.” State v.…