Nicholson v. Wittig

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• finding that woman was entitled to expect her communications to clergy person would be confidential, based on his representations about his status as chaplain and his availability to serve her in his spiritual capacity
• privilege attaches when a person makes a communication with a reasonable expectation of confidentiality to a clergy member acting in his or her spiritual capacity
• under broad construction of “confidential,” intermittent presence of hospital personnel did not destroy confidentiality
• “[T]he privilege attaches when a person makes a communication with a reasonable expectation of confidentiality to a member of the clergy acting in his or her professional or spiritual capacity.” (emphasis added)
• clergy privilege applied to statements made to hospital chaplain

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).