Cutter v. Brownbridge

Opinion

HOLMDAHL, J.

This case presents the issue of whether a party’s psychotherapist is immune from liability for a disclosure of privileged information voluntarily made in a judicial proceeding, when that disclosure violates the patient’s constitutional right of privacy.

The judgment dismissing the complaint with prejudice is reversed.

Statement of Facts

According to allegations of the first amended complaint, respondent Robert Brownbridge, a licensed clinical social worker, was psychotherapist for appellant Newell I. Cutter II between 1976 and 1982. At the beginning of the…