Commonwealth of Kentucky, Finance and Administration Cabinet v. Hon Thomas D. Wingate Judge, Franklin Circuit Court

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUSTICE VENTERS

Appellants, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Finance and Administration Cabinet, et al. (collectively, Cabinet), appeal from an order of the Court of Appeals granting the petition of Kentucky Spirit Health Care Plan, Inc., for a writ of prohibition against Franklin Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate. ■ The writ prohibited Judge Win-gate from enforcing an order imposing a stay of discovery in the underlying declaratory judgment litigation.

Kentucky Spirit brought a declaratory judgment action seeking a ruling that it had a right to terminate its Medicaid managed…