Baltimore City Department of Social Services v. Stein

How courts have described this case

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• equating the ‘“need to inspect’ with relevance and the existence of ‘a reasonable possibility that review of the records would result in discovery of usable evidence’ in determining the discoverability of confidential records.”
• a defendant is not entitled to in camera review of a murder victim’s psychiatric records absent a showing of how the file could likely be related to the defense
• a defendant is not entitled to in camera review of a murder victim's psychiatric records absent a showing of how the file could likely be related to the defense
• “[T]he order from which it has appealed is a discovery order, which normally is interlocutory and, consequently, nonappealable”
• “[T]he order from which it has appealed is a discovery order, which normally is interlocutory and, consequently, unappealable.”
• discussing elements of collateral order doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).