DOBSON v. EDWARDS

DOBSON v. EDWARDS
1998 OK 62
958 P.2d 168
69 OBJ 2336
Case Number: 91195
Decided: 06/01/1998
Modified: 06/23/1998
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

STEVE DOBSON, Petitioner
v.
THE HONORABLE ELLEN C. EDWARDS, Workers' Compensation Judge, Respondent.

ORDER

¶ 1 Original jurisdiction is assumed. Let the writ issue prohibiting respondent judge, or any other assigned judge, from enforcing order filed April 15, 1998 in Cause No. 98-1631 K. The Workers' Compensation Court is without authority to require that the claimant provide the employer and its workers' compensation insurance carrier an unrestricted medical release. Nitzel v. Jackson, Oki., 879 P.2d 1222 (1994).

DONE BY ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT IN CONFERENCE THIS 1st DAY OF JUNE, 1998.

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CHIEF JUSTICE

¶ 2 KAUGER, C.J., SUMMERS, V.C.J., LAVENDER, SIMMS, HARGRAVE, OPALA, WILSON, WATT, JJ. - Concur

¶ 3 HODGES, J. - Dissents