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- Title: United States v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Release Date : January 10, 1976
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 95 KB
Description
Petitioner, Dr. George R. Caesar, a licensed psychiatrist practicing in California, has appealed from an order denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking to set aside a contempt adjudication and sentence in the California Superior Court, Marin County. He was adjudged in contempt for refusing to obey an order directing him to answer questions relating to communications with a former patient, based on "patient-litigant exception" to the psychotherapist-patient privilege, contained in California Evidence Code § 1016. Petitioner contends that § 1016 violates "rights of privacy, due process and equal protection which exist under the Constitution of the United States". In a detailed and well reasoned opinion the Supreme Court of California rejected this contention in In Re Lifschutz, 2 Cal. 3d 415, 467 P.2d 557, 44 A.L.R. 3d 1, 85 Cal. Rptr. 829 (1970), and upheld the validity of § 1016. We agree with the conclusions of the court in In Re Lifschutz and affirm the order of the district court.
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