Jamison v. Pennsylvania Power Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring party asserting psychotherapist privilege to “establish both the existence of the privilege and the absence of waiver”
• “The determinative factor assessing the existence of a psychotherapist-patient privilege is whether an officer had a reasonable expectation of confidentiality relating to the post-incident counseling session or evaluation.”
• \The party asserting a privilege has the burden to demonstrate that the privilege exists under the circumstances presented. Courts typically hold that waiver is a negative burden that the privilege proponent must satisfy.\ (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).