Case Name: ALTERRA HEALTH CARE CORPORATION, a/k/a Alternative Living Services, Inc., d/b/a Sterling House of Tallahassee, and Sterling House Corporation, d/b/a Sterling House of Tallahassee, Petitioners, v. Estate of Frances SHELLEY, By and Through Mark S. MITCHELL, Executor De Son Tort, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2001-03-08
Citations: 779 So. 2d 635
Docket Number: No. 1D00-3260
Parties: ALTERRA HEALTH CARE CORPORATION, a/k/a Alternative Living Services, Inc., d/b/a Sterling House of Tallahassee, and Sterling House Corporation, d/b/a Sterling House of Tallahassee, Petitioners, v. Estate of Frances SHELLEY, By and Through Mark S. MITCHELL, Executor De Son Tort, Respondent.
Judges: ERVIN and PADOVANO, JJ., concur; WOLF, J., concurs with opinion.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 779
Pages: 635–636

Head Matter:
ALTERRA HEALTH CARE CORPORATION, a/k/a Alternative Living Services, Inc., d/b/a Sterling House of Tallahassee, and Sterling House Corporation, d/b/a Sterling House of Tallahassee, Petitioners, v. Estate of Frances SHELLEY, By and Through Mark S. MITCHELL, Executor De Son Tort, Respondent.
No. 1D00-3260.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
March 8, 2001.
Marie A. Borland and Donna J. Fudge of Hill, Ward & Henderson, P.A., Tampa, for petitioners.
Camille Godwin of Wilkes & McHugh, P.A., Tallahassee, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In this nursing home negligence case, the defendant, Alterra Health Care Corporation, has filed a petition for writ of certiorari, asserting that the trial court violated the privacy rights of its non-party employees and departed from the essential requirements of law by ordering Al-terra to produce employee personnel files containing confidential information. We are bound by North Florida Reg'l Hosp., Inc. v. Douglas, 454 So.2d 759 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984), in which we held that an employer does not have standing to raise the privacy rights of its employees. Since, under Douglas, Alterra did not have standing to assert the privacy rights of its non-party employees, the trial court could not have departed from the essential requirements of law. We acknowledge and certify conflict with Beverly Enterprises-Florida, Inc. v. Deutsch, 765 So.2d 778 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000).
Alterra's petition is denied.
ERVIN and PADOVANO, JJ., concur; WOLF, J., concurs with opinion.