Trammel v. Bradberry

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• concluding that father whose schizophrenic adult son resided with him lacked physical control over son; the living arrangement did “not create either the right or exercise of physical control over the behavior of a mentally ill person necessary to create the special relationship”
• raising defense of insanity waives statutory privilege protecting disclosure from psychiatrist-patient relationship
• “Where a party calls his or her psychiatrist to testify at trial on the party’s behalf, when the mental status of the party is in issue, this constitutes decisive, unequivocal conduct that reasonably implies the intent to waive the psychiatric privilege.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).