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WASHBURN v. RITE AID CORP.

No. 95-681-Appeal.

695 A.2d 495 (1997)

Christine WASHBURN v. RITE AID CORP., d.b.a. Rite Aid Pharmacies.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

June 13, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Giacobbe, Warwick, for Plaintiff.

Kevin S. Cotter, Providence, for Defendant.

Before WEISBERGER, C.J., and LEDERBERG, BOURCIER and FLANDERS, JJ.

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

This lawsuit challenges a pharmacy's disclosure of a woman's prescription-drug records to her estranged husband's attorney without first notifying her or obtaining her consent. In 1992 the plaintiff, Christine Washburn, was pregnant and in the throes of a bitterly contested divorce. Her husband, Robert Washburn (the husband), through his attorney, Terrence Higgins (Higgins), subpoenaed the defendant, Rite Aid Corp.,...

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