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· 11/27/2001

Lightman v. Flaum

Citations

  • 761 N.E.2d 1027
  • 97 N.Y.2d 128
  • 736 N.Y.S.2d 300
  • 2001 N.Y. LEXIS 3463

How courts have described this case

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

  • statutory privileges are \not the sources of the underlying duties” of confidentiality and \do[] not establish the parameters of those fiduciary relationships”
  • rabbi's disclosure of confidential information to plaintiff's husband later used against her in divorce proceeding
  • rabbi's disclosure of confidential information to plaintiff's husband later used against her in divorce proceeding

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Judges: Graffeo

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