Rembert v. Lipshutz

Order unanimously affirmed, with costs. Memorandum: Defendant appeals from an order of protection preventing him from examining the infant plaintiff (now six years old) before trial or obtaining disclosure of the name and address of her natural father. Examination before trial of plaintiff mother has been scheduled. The action seeks damages for personal and psychiatric injuries sustained by the infant as a result of defendant’s acts of sexual abuse. Defendant has pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of oral sodomy and by his answer to the complaint admits that act. The case is thus one for the…