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GAERTNER v. STATE OF MICHIGAN

No. 39 January Term 1971, Docket No. 52,928.

385 Mich. 49 (1971)

187 N.W.2d 429

GAERTNER v. STATE OF MICHIGAN

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 1, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goodman, Eden, Robb, Millender, Goodman & Bedrosian (by Charles J. Barr), for plaintiff.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Maxine Boord Virtue and Arthur E. D'Hondt, Assistant Attorneys General, for defendant.

WILLIAMS, J.

This case involves the question whether a state hospital may lawfully bar the legal representative of a patient from access to that patient's hospital records on the basis of MCLA § 600.2157 (Stat Ann 1962 Rev § 27A.2157) making those records confidential. The Attorney General contends for non-access to such records as a protection to hospital physicians against loss of licensure, suit or prosecution for violation of the aforesaid statutory...

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