Cooke v. Berlin

OPINION

JACOBSON, Presiding Judge.

In this case of first impression in Arizona, we must determine whether a psychiatrist and his employer are liable to the surviving spouse of a person who was killed by an individual who received treatment as an out-patient.

The facts are taken in a light most favorable to the plaintiff-appellant, Laura U. Cooke, against whom summary judgment was entered. In late 1981 and early 1982, Tanya Robinson, a single 22 year old student at the University of Arizona, came to believe that she was the subject of surveillance by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). She…