Clark v. District Court, Second Judicial District, City & County of Denver

QUINN, Justice.

In this original proceeding the petitioner, Stephan D. Clark, who is one of two defendants in a pending wrongful death action, seeks to prohibit the Denver District Court (respondent court) from enforcing an order authorizing the disclosure of psychiatric and psychological records pertaining to Clark’s previous treatment for mental problems and associated alcohol and drug abuse. We issued a rule to show cause and now make the rule absolute.

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Stella M. Sailas, as conservator for the estates of the three minor children of the decedent, Jerry Joseph Sailas, commenced a wrongful…