Dunbar v. Greenlaw

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• a physician’s certification that the plaintiff was insane, offered during an insanity corn-mitment proceeding, was relevant and absolutely privileged even if the diagnosis of insanity amounted to malpractice
• “The law, no doubt, deems it prudent to provide against the possibility of a too apprehensive physician depriving a person mentally ill of any speedy care, treatment or protection indicated or failing to protect the public from a serious menace.”
• judicial proceeding privilege bars malpractice against certifying physician in insanity proceeding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).