Back to the past in California: a temporary retreat to a Tarasoff duty to warn.

The duty to warn: a reconsideration and critique.

A previous article in this Journal surveyed a psychotherapist’s legal duty to warn third parties of violent threats made by a patient. Twenty-seven states impose an actual duty to warn (as did the seminal case of Tarasoff v. The Regents of the University of California itself ): Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minne...

Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California: psychotherapist's obligation of confidentiality versus the duty to warn.

This Casenote/Comment is brought to you for free and open access by TU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Tulsa Law Review by an authorized editor of TU Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Nancy A. Nesbitt, Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California: Psychotherapist's Obligation of Confidentialit...

The dangerous patient exception to the psychotherapist-patient privilege: the Tarasoff duty and the Jaffee footnote.

With the U.S. Supreme Court's 1996 decision in Jaffee v. Redmond, all U.S. jurisdictions have now adopted some form of evidentiary privilege for confidential statements by patients to psychotherapists for the purpose of seeking treatment. The majority of states, following the decision of the Supreme Court of California in Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, have also adopted so...

Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California: psychotherapists, policemen and the duty to warn--an unreasonable extension of the common law?

No duty to warn in California: now unambiguously solely a duty to protect.

In 2013, legislation went into effect clarifying that the Tarasoff duty in California is now unambiguously solely a duty to protect. Warning the potential victim and the police is not a requirement, but a clinician can obtain immunity from liability by using this safe harbor. In situations in which a therapist believes warning might exacerbate the patient's risk, however, alternative protective...