Case Name: Angela REID, Petitioner, v. Whitney JACQUES, Respondent
Court: Alaska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Alaska
Decision Date: 2003-12-19
Citations: 81 P.3d 981
Docket Number: No. S-10620
Parties: Angela REID, Petitioner, v. Whitney JACQUES, Respondent.
Judges: Before: BRYNER, Chief Justice, and MATTHEWS, EASTAUGH, FABE, and CARPENETI, Justices.
Reporter: Pacific Reporter 3d
Volume: 81
Pages: 981–981

Head Matter:
Angela REID, Petitioner, v. Whitney JACQUES, Respondent.
No. S-10620.
Supreme Court of Alaska.
Dec. 19, 2003.
Before: BRYNER, Chief Justice, and MATTHEWS, EASTAUGH, FABE, and CARPENETI, Justices.

Opinion:
Order
It is OrpERED, Susa SpontE: The order granting the petition for review and summarily vacating the superior court's order for independent psychiatric evaluation, issued on 7/12/02, is Wiruprawn and as Order No. 46 this date.
On consideration of the petition for review, filed on 5/16/02, and the response, filed 6/28/02,
It Is OrpERED
The petition for review is hereby GRANTED and the Superior Court's May 2, 2002 order compelling petitioner Angela Reid to attend a psychiatric examination with Dr. Winn is VacaTED. This order is based on the insufficiency of respondent's showing of the need for an independent psychiatric exam, as well as this court's assumption that respondent Whitney Jacques has access to petitioner's medical and counseling records and an opportunity to depose petitioner's treating counselor. Furthermore, this order is entered without prejudice to respondent's ability to renew her motion with a more particularized showing of the need for an individual psychiatric examination. Examples of such a showing would include the petitioner's intent to use expert or treating physician or counselor testimony to support her claim of mental distress; a claim of unusually severe mental distress; or an allegation of a specific type of mental or psychiatric injury for which petitioner has sought treatment. See, eg., Turner v. Imperial Stores, 161 F.R.D. 89 (S.D.Cal. 1995).