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RENZI v. MORRISON

No. 1-92-2422.

618 N.E.2d 794 (1993)

249 Ill. App.3d 5

188 Ill.Dec. 224

Diane C. RENZI, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Helen MORRISON, M.D., Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

June 24, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. Price and Mark D. Roth of Pretzel & Stouffer, Chtd., Chicago (Robert Marc Chemers and Mark D. Roth, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Baskin, Server, Berke, Weinstein & Spiro, Chicago (Burton I. Weinstein, John R. Malkinson and Seth R. Halpern, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Justice CAHILL delivered the opinion of the court:

This case involves two competing interests: the need to reach the truth in a judicial proceeding and a psychiatric patient's right to privacy.

Plaintiff, Diane Renzi, filed an action for damages against defendant, Helen Morrison, M.D. She alleged that Morrison violated the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act (Ill.Rev. Stat.1983, ch. 91½, par. 801-17), when she voluntarily...

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