Kessell v. Bridewell

OPINION

VANCE, Justice.

In this mandamus proceeding, we must decide (1) whether non-parties asserting their rights of privacy in documents that are otherwise discoverable have standing to seek mandamus review of an adverse order and (2) whether the employees of an insurance company have established their privacy interests in their employer’s “performance-evaluation records” to an extent sufficient to prevent disclosure to the plaintiffs in a bad-faith suit. Because we find that the employees have standing but have not established their privacy interests in the records in question, we deny the…