Burton v. University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, in addition to 22.7 exemptions, effect should be given to'any statute outside chapter 22 that requires otherwise public records to be kept confidential
• holding that physician–patient privilege protected documents held by public hospital de- spite not being identified in section 22.7
• holding that, in addition to 22.7 exemptions, effect should be given to any statute outside chapter 22 that requires otherwise public records to be kept confidential
• explaining that a specific statute prevails as an exception to a general statute when the two irreconcilably conflict
• considering a repeal of a special statute by a more general one
• “[C]hapter 22 does not trump or supersede specific statutes like sections 135.40–.42 on confidentiality of records.”

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