Pastore v. Samson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Court \cannot interpret a statute in a way that will lead to an absurd result\
• holding \that the attorney-client privilege must be narrowly construed because it limits the full disclosure of the truth\
• stating that \[p]erhaps the most important and familiar argument for stare decisis is one of public legitimacy.\
• construing a statutory privilege for peer-review reports about doctors \strictly\ in favor of the common law rule of disclosure
• A physician is required to disclose whether his staff privileges had ever been “restricted, revoked, or curtailed.”
• \The burden of establishing these elements is on the party advancing the privilege.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).