Lora v. Board of Education

WEINSTEIN, District Judge.

This pre-trial discovery motion, in a suit brought to protect maladjusted and disturbed New York City school children, raises important issues of the rights of non-party students to privacy and to the protections of the psychiatrist-patient privilege. These rights are not absolute. They must be balanced against other important rights and needs. In the special circumstances here presented, and given adequate limitations on use to prevent embarrassing disclosures, the limited right or privilege to protect therapist-patient interchanges must yield. The value of a just…