Tanaka v. Brownell

How courts have described this case

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• allowing recording of examination based on plaintiff’s proof that physician was abusive, had been disqualified in some previous cases, and had ignored prior court ordered examination conditions
• allowing recording of examination based on evidence presented by plaintiff that physician was abusive, had been disqualified from several cases, and had predilection for ignoring court ordered conditions on his examinations
• wherein credible evidence, including court orders, was offered to establish the prior bad conduct of the psychiatrist in question
• “[T]he court believes that the presence of a third-party can only threaten to turn the examination into a more adversarial process than it should be.” (quotations and citation omitted)
• “The court assumes that Dr. Stillings will exercise sound professional discretion in making such inquiries and will not pursue private information that is wholly unrelated to plaintiff’s claims of injury and emotional distress.”
• “[T]he court will require [the examiner] to tape-record his sessions with [the] plaintiff in light of [the] plaintiff’s concerns (and, more specifically, in light of evidence in the record suggesting that plaintiff’s concerns are legitimate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).