Oliver v. Harborview Medical Center

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the patient has the burden to prove an exception to the medical records exemption
• burden shifts to the party seeking disclosure to establish that the exemption is clearly unnecessary
• patient’s medical record at a public hospital was a public record because it contained information about the administration of health care services, etc.
• burden shifts to the party seeking disclosure to establish that the exemption is clearly unnecessary
• burden shifts to the party seeking disclosure to establish exemption is clearly unnecessary
• legislative declarations of policy \'serve as an important guide in determining the intended effect of the operative sections'\ (quoting Hearst Corp. v. Hoppe, 90 Wn.2d 123, 128, 580 P.2d 246 (1978))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).