privilege

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-1530 Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl Colorado 2022-06-06 Denied article-iii-standing civil-rights court-ordered-therapy due-process fourteenth-amendment personal-autonomy privilege professional-ethics standing therapist-privilege therapy-requirement Whether the federally and state recognized privilege in Jaffee v. Redmond and personal autonomy under the Fourteenth Amendment preclude a state distri…
20-1226 Tracy Will Vaughn v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-03-05 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-present-defense counseling-records due-process evidentiary-privilege privilege right-to-defense sexual-assault testimonial-development Whether a state may declare a sexual assault accuser's counseling records absolutely privileged even when the counseling is used to develop the accuse…
20-591 Daniel Greer, Rabbi, et al. v. Eliyahu Mirlis Second Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived adverse-inference civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-inference fifth-amendment privilege self-incrimination What factors determine whether an adverse inference may be drawn against a party to a civil action following the party's invocation of the Fifth Amend…
19-1357 Robert Angel Perez v. Colorado Colorado 2020-06-11 Denied Amici (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment mental-health-records privilege sixth-amendment state-privilege Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to discover potentially exculpatory mental health records held by…
19-1214 Marty Friend v. Indiana Indiana 2020-04-14 Denied Amici (1) criminal-defendants criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence medical-records privilege privileged-records psychotherapist-patient psychotherapist-privilege sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether, and under what circumstances, criminal defendants' Sixth Amendment and Due Process rights entitle them to obtain witnesses' privileged treatm…
18-9070 Gabriel Urzua Sanchez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure direct-appeal district-court fifth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum privilege sentencing witness-testimony Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to properly determine that Mr. Sanchez's proposed witnesses had a valid Fifth Amendment pr…
18-622 Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal discovery discovery-order first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-conduct judicial-review mohawk-industries mootness privilege supervisory-power Whether the court of appeals' decision to exercise jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from a discovery order rejecting a claim of privilege con…
18-5733 Steven Pinder v. Alva Green McDowell, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process medical-records patient-privacy patient-privilege privilege standing Whether the 'propagated authorization' for release of medical records put forth by the defendants is in fact constitutional?