Title: DOBSON v. EDWARDS

State: oklahoma

Issuer: Oklahoma Supreme Court

Document:

DOBSON v. EDWARDS  DOBSON v. EDWARDS 1998 OK 62 958 P.2d 168 69 OBJ 2336 Case Number: 91195 Decided: 06/01/1998 Modified: 06/23/1998 Supreme Court of Oklahoma STEVE DOBSON, Petitioner v. THE HONORABLE ELLEN C. EDWARDS, Workers' Compensation Judge, Respondent. ORDER ¶ 1 Original jurisdiction is assumed. Let the writ issue prohibiting respondent judge, or any other assigned judge, from enforcing order filed April 15, 1998 in Cause No. 98-1631 K. The Workers' Compensation Court is without authority to require that the claimant provide the employer and its workers' compensation insurance carrier an unrestricted medical release. Nitzel v. Jackson, Oki., 879 P.2d 1222 (1994). DONE BY ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT IN CONFERENCE THIS 1st DAY OF JUNE, 1998. _____________________________ CHIEF JUSTICE ¶ 2 KAUGER, C.J., SUMMERS, V.C.J., LAVENDER, SIMMS, HARGRAVE, OPALA, WILSON, WATT, JJ. - Concur ¶ 3 HODGES, J. - Dissents