Russell County, Kentucky Hospital District Health Facilities Corp. v. Ephraim McDowell Health, Inc.

OPINION AND ORDER

LAMBERT, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

In a pending original action seeking a writ of prohibition, the Court of Appeals granted intermediate relief under CR 76.36(4) in the form of a temporary stay of a circuit court order. Subsequently, both an original action for a writ of prohibition against the enforcement of the temporary stay and an appeal of the temporary stay were filed in this Court. We are thus presented with the questions of whether the Supreme Court can hear an original action and whether an appeal can be taken from intermediate relief granted under CR 76.36(4). We…