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p0032 A plaintiff claiming that the operator of a trolley was psychologically unfit to operate it because she was under treatment by a psychotherapist that included the use of psychotropic drugs is entitled to discovery of any warnings the psychotherapist gave the trolley company, but not to the other contents of the operator's personnel file or to confidential communications between the operator and her therapist; if such discovery reveals a genuine factual dispute as to what the employer knew about the operator's condition, further discovery may be permitted of limited portions of personnel records containing information about the operator's mental capabilities at the time of the accident.CitationSD TROLLEY v SUPERIOR COURT (Trolley Records) 87 CA4 1083 [See: EvC 101, 1012, 1014, 912; Tarasoff v Regents 17 C3 425; Menendez v Superior Court 3 C4 435; City of Alhambra v Superior Court 110 CA3 513; Roberts v Superior Court 9 C3 330]
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