MATTER OF JACQUELINE F.


47 N.Y.2d 215 (1979)

In the Matter of the Appointment of a Guardian for Jacqueline F. (Anonymous), an Infant. Maria F. (Anonymous) et al., Respondents; Philip C. Segal, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 8, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth L. Koob and Lloyd B. Silverman for appellant.

M. Madeline Welch for respondents.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges GABRIELLI and WACHTLER concur with Judge JASEN; Judge JONES concurs in a separate opinion; Judge FUCHSBERG dissents and votes to reverse in another opinion.


JASEN, J.

On this appeal we direct our attention to the circumstances under which an attorney may be compelled on pain of contempt to disclose the address of his client notwithstanding a claim that such information was the subject of a privileged communication.

The tangled factual web which clothes this issue removing it from the abstract is drawn from a lengthy and heated proceeding in which respondents...

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