Legal Opinion
Eubanks v. Ferrier
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided May 7, 1980No. 35989PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Justice.
In this case, we are called upon to decide the constitutionality of Code Ann. § 88-3204 (Ga. L. 1975, pp. 739, 740). The General Assembly enacted this statute in 1975 in order to make the records and proceedings of hospital medical review committees privileged and nondisco verable. The appellant herein argues that this statute is both facially unconstitutional and unconstitutional as applied by the trial court. Although we sustain the constitutionality of Code Ann. § 88-3204, we do find that the trial court misconstrued and misapplied it. It is therefore unnecessary to…
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