Case ID: ad2d_147/html/0959-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Maria I. O'Connor, Respondent, v Charles R. West et al., Defendants. Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Appellant.
   — Order unanimously aflirmed with costs. Memorandum: Special Term did not abuse its discretion in ordering a non-party to disclose patients’ hospital records. Plaintiff established that the requested information is material and necessary to the resolution of plaintiff’s defamation action (see, Perry v Fiumano, 61 AD2d 512, 516, 519). Moreover, the court reasonably conditioned disclosure by providing that the names of the patients would be kept confidential during any pretrial or trial proceeding (see, Bernstein v Lore, 59 AD2d 650). (Appeal from order of Supreme Court, Erie County, Ostrowski, J. — discovery.) Present — Denman, J. P., Boomer, Green, Law-ton and Davis, JJ.