Speaker Ex Rel. Speaker v. COUNTY, SAN BERNARDINO

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the fact that the session is mandatory does not destroy the privilege
• holding that the fact that the session is mandatory does not destroy the privilege
• “the burden of proof for the psychotherapist/patient privilege is on the party seeking to establish that the privilege applies”
• where the court rejected the plaintiff’s argument that the privilege could not attach to counseling sessions that an employer required, explaining that the inquiry “turn[s] on the fact that the officer knew that the counselor’s report would go to his employer”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).