PANELLA v. UNITED STATES


139 F.Supp. 159 (1956)

Arnold PANELLA, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

March 23, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Ammerman, New York City, for plaintiff.

Paul W. Williams, U. S. Atty., by Earl J. McHugh, New York City, for defendant.


WEINFELD, District Judge.

The ban imposed by statute upon the disclosure of the record of a patient's voluntary commitment to the United States Public Health Hospital must not be relaxed so as to defeat the essential purpose of preserving intact information and data resulting from the physician-patient relationship.1 But this does not require that those records and communications which are...

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