Legal Opinion
Ace v. State
New York Court of Claims
Decided March 9, 1990No. Claim No. 71060APublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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Gerard M. Weisberg, J.
In this action, we must decide whether the State of New York is answerable in damages when it mistakenly delivered claimant’s confidential psychiatric records to her husband’s attorney instead of to the Family Court as directed by a so-ordered subpoena.
Claimant, Alice Ace, was married to her second husband, Arthur, on March 21, 1971. This union produced three children. The family also included claimant’s daughter, Donna Davids, from her prior marriage.
By June 1976, claimant and Arthur were having marital problems. At that time, claimant suffered an…
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