Mincey v. Georgia Department of Community Affairs

Dillard, Judge.

In this personal injury action, we granted appellant Carolyn L. Mincey’s application for interlocutory appeal to review the trial court’s order denying her motion for a protective order and directing her to execute a release of her mental-health records to appellee Georgia Department of Community Affairs (“GDCA”). The trial court denied Mincey’s motion after concluding that she waived the right to assert a mental-health privilege by providing evasive and/or false responses about her medical history to GDCA during discovery. The trial court further granted GDCA a continuance and…