Court Opinion

ID: 5911744
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 03:55:36.543525+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:46:02.885673
License: Public Domain

— 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.