Roberts v. Superior Court

Opinion

BURKE, J.

In this case we are faced with the problem of determining the scope of allowable discovery under the psychotherapist-patient privilege established by Evidence Code section 1014.

Janet Roberts, petitioner, was injured on March 24, 1971, in a collision with an automobile owned and operated by defendants Alice and Henry Weist. She subsequently filed an action for personal injuries alleging that as a proximate cause of defendants’ negligence she was “rendered sick, sore, lame, and disabled, and was damaged in the sum of One Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($125,000.00).”

In due…