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Burns, Robert E. – Akron Law Review, 1975
The Supreme Court of California upheld a lower court's ruling in Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California. It stated that a psychotherapist's privilege of privacy based on the need for psychotherapeutic secrecy ends where the public peril begins. (LBH)
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Court Litigation, Crime, Criminal Law
