United States Tenth Circuit

A non-profit Colorado corporation, designated as the state's Protection and Advocacy System under the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act, is entitled to peer review and quality assurance records in connection with its investigation into suicides and attempts by mental health care patients.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/27/2003
• Published 03/27/2003

Judges

• STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge., Before BRISCOE, ANDERSON, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark J. Ivandick (Terry L. Fowler with him on the briefs), Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Sandra L. Gomez, Protection & Advocacy System, Inc., Albuquerque, NM, and Gary P. Gross, National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems, Washington, DC, filed an amicus curiae brief for the National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems.


• For Appellees:
  
• Beverly Fulton, First Assistant Attorney General, Human Services Unit, State Services Section, Denver, CO (Ken Salazar, Attorney General, Denver, CO, with her on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.