Ross v. Cities Service Gas Co.

RIDGE, District Judge.

Title 38 U.S.C.A. § 456 provides that the records of the Veterans’ Administration shall be deemed “confidential and privileged” except “(b) Where required by the process of a United States Court to be produced in any suit or proceeding therein pending; * * * Hence, by the express provisions of the above statute, records of the V.A. “are shorn” of any claim of absolute privilege when the exception stated becomes applicable thereto. McGlothan v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 3 Cir., 170 F.2d 121, 130.

Pursuant to the provisions of Rule 45 (b), F.R.C.P., 28 U.S.C.A., a subpoena duces…