Jowers v. State ex rel. Department of Health & Hospitals

LOTTINGER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal, by the State, of a judgment denying it the relief sought by its Rule to Show Cause. In the district court, the State sought an order to compel Mr. Jowers to respond to interrogatories it propounded to him before a medical review panel. Mr. Jowers had requested that a medical review panel be convened to examine his claims of malpractice against several doctors, and other personnel, at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.

The State asserted, in its rule, that those sections of the Code of Civil Procedure dealing with'discovery should be added to the State…