Anthony Distributors, Inc. v. Miller Brewing Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• post-shooting counseling reports regarding police officer held non-privileged where the reports were submitted to public officials
• “[t]he Court’s reasoning [in Jaffee ] clearly shows that confidentiality is the foundation upon which the psychotherapist-patient privilege rests”
• communications made during counseling required by employer and reports submitted to employer not privileged
• not only were the reports submitted to the officer’s employers discoverable but the officer’s conversations and notes taken during the examinations were not protected by the psychotherapist/patient privilege recognized in Jaffee
• “A police officer who is ordered to therapy, knowing that the therapist will report back to his or her superior, would have no expectation that his or her conversation was confidential.”
• “A police officer who is ordered to therapy, knowing that the therapist will report back to his or her superior, would have no expectation that his or her conversation was confidential.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).