“Baylor appreciates the court’s consideration of the university’s mandamus petition,” stated Lori Fogleman, the assistant vice president of media communications at Baylor, in an email to the Tribune-Herald on Tuesday morning. “Our ongoing objective has been to protect the confidential medical, counseling and student conduct records of students who were not involved in the Plaintiffs’ cases. We will continue to comply with the trial court’s orders regarding discovery.”

It’s unclear when current and former students will receive letters in the mail from the college, alerting them to the release of the documents.

In Baylor’s appeal of the judge’s orders, officials alleged Pitman’s rulings were a “clear abuse of discretion” regarding the possibility of more than 47,300 documents, including 32,000 FERPA-protected (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) records, the university’s filing stated.

The university asked for the court to delay the discovery of the records, limit the discovery of the records to summary information, or delay the discovery pending an appeal about the validity of the plaintiffs’ “heightened risk” reasoning behind the demand for the records.

The heightened risk was described as follows, according to a plaintiffs’ filing: