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Sex Offender Treatment Records Not Subject to Discovery

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Medical Records, Crime/Demographics, Victims, Disclosure of Records. Location: Massachusetts.

The plaintiff was raped in a McDonald's parking lot and sued the company.
The rapist is now in prison and receiving mental health treatment, and the
victim is seeking his prison mental health records.

Under state law (the case being a state law case brought under the federal
court's diversity ...

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