Word: waivers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lifschutz protested, relying on a battery of arguments, including a claim that the Constitution gives psychotherapists an absolute right not to disclose, regardless of their patients' wishes. Moreover, Lifschutz argued, the patient cannot make an informed waiver of his rights-he may not know what his doctors will say about him. Worse still, said Lifschutz, a psychiatrist's testimony might well torment his patient and destroy the treatment process...
Last week the high court upheld the decision to hold the psychiatrist in contempt. In essence, the decision reaffirmed the state's waiver law. When a plaintiff makes his own mental condition an issue in a lawsuit, the court ruled, the need for accurate trial evidence overrides a psychiatrist's right to protect the confidentiality of what he knows. Even so, the court recognized a patient's right to avoid public embarrassment. It emphasized that judges should limit the scope of the inquiry in the light of "the nature of the injuries which the patient-litigant himself...
Constitutional Waiver. Although the decision dealt with conduct at a Chicago trial 13 years ago, the court clearly was also mindful of recent disruptions in another Chicago courtroom-Judge Julius Hoffman's. The decision appeared to vindicate some of Hoffman's responses to the angry Chicago Eight, including the binding and gagging of Black Panther Bobby Scale...
...various reports that led to this action, it was made clear that projects such as NASA's would probably be granted a waiver," Warren Goodell, Columbia vice-president for administration, said...