Konvalinka v. Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority

OPINION

WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which WILLIAM M. BARKER, C.J., JANICE M. HOLDER, CORNELIA A. CLARK, and GARY R. WADE, JJ„ joined.

This appeal involves a civil contempt proceeding originating in the Court of Appeals. The intermediate appellate court granted an interlocutory appeal to address a discovery dispute in a lawsuit between a physician and a public hospital regarding the physician’s staff privileges. In its order granting the interlocutory appeal, the court stayed “all proceedings below” while the appeal was pending. Despite the stay order, one of…