Case Title: Brown v. Blevins

Citation: 1998 OK 104, 69OBJ3611, 968 P.2d 1218

Docket Number: 91731

State: oklahoma

Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court

Date: 1998-10-20T00:00:00Z

Document:
Brown v. Blevins1998 OK 104968 P.2d 121869 OBJ 3611Case Number: 91731Decided: 10/20/1998Supreme Court of Oklahoma KAREN S. BROWN, Petitioner, v. THE HONORABLE JAMES B. BLEVINS, District Court Judge of Oklahoma County, Respondent. ORDER Original jurisdiction is assumed. Art. 7 § 4, Okla.Const. Let the writ issue prohibiting the respondent/judge, or any other assigned judge, from giving any effect to or enforcing his order in the underlying cause, No. CJ-97-3993-62, District Court, Oklahoma County, by which the petitioner was found to have waived the physician /patient privilege. See Higginbotham v. Jackson, 1994 OK 8, 869 P.2d 319. "The privilege is waived only to the extent of the condition claimed to have been caused by the negligence of the tortfeasor." Nitzel v. Jackson, 1994 OK 49, 879 P.2d 1222, 1223. The respondent/judge's ruling, which is tantamount to an order requiring the petitioner to execute an unrestricted medical release, is unenforceable. See Dobson v. Edwards, 1998 OK 62, 958 P.2d 168; General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Carpenter, 1978 OK 39, ¶ 10, 567 P.2d 1166, 1168. ALL JUSTICES CONCUR.