California Court of Appeal November 13, 1997, C024191 (Obos v. Scripps Psychological Associates, Inc.)

Opinion

NICHOLSON, J.

This lawsuit raises the issue of the application of judicial privilege to communications regarding a third party, made in the course of a court-ordered child custody and placement investigation in connection with a child custody dispute. In the course of such an investigation, a court-appointed psychologist was told the mother’s boyfriend, Steven J.