		<div class="wpcnt">
			<div class="wpa">
				<span class="wpa-about">Advertisements</span>
				<div class="u top_amp">
							<amp-ad width="300" height="265"
		 type="pubmine"
		 data-siteid="111265417"
		 data-section="2">
		</amp-ad>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div><p>The widow of NBA star Kobe Bryant must allow lawyers to review her therapy records, a judge has ruled, as she sues first responders for emotional distress.</p>
<p>Vanessa Bryant said she had been impacted by emergency service workers taking photos at the site of the helicopter crash.</p>
<p>The pictures, of the area where Bryant, his teenage daughter and seven others died in the January 2020 incident, were also shared which has also caused distress, the lawsuit said.</p>
<p>US District Court Magistrate Judge Charles Eick granted a request by county lawyers to review Vanessa Bryant’s records, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday.</p>
<p>But the judge limited the documents to the years since 2017, not 2010 as the lawyers had sought.</p>
<p>“Plaintiff has waived her psychotherapist-patient privilege by placing into controversy the reportedly extraordinary, continuing emotional distress allegedly resulting from Defendants’ photograph-related actions or inactions,” the judge wrote of crash near Los Angeles.</p>
<p><!--Ads1--></p>
<p>Vanessa Bryant testified in her deposition that, because of the photos, she has suffered constant fear and anxiety and has had trouble sleeping.</p>
<p>She is suing for invasion of privacy, asking for damages for emotional distress. The case is scheduled for trial in February.</p>
<figure id="attachment_150183" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-150183" style="width: 800px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/c414bb00-5183-11ea-83c6-afc84cce538a_800_420.png" alt="Kobe Bryant and Gianna Bryant" width="800" height="420" class="size-full wp-image-150183" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-150183" class="wp-caption-text">Kobe and daughter Gianna Bryant was killed in the crash</figcaption></figure>
<p>County lawyers led by outside counsel Skip Miller argue that the deaths themselves caused her distress, and they sought the therapy records to determine Bryant’s mental state.</p>
<p>The same judge rejected a previous effort by the county to require her to undergo a mental health evaluation.</p>
<p>Her lawyers argued that the effort to get her therapy records was a further invasion of her privacy.</p>
<p>“The County continues to have nothing but the deepest sympathy for the enormous grief Ms Bryant suffered as a result of the tragic helicopter accident,” Mr Miller was quoted by the Times as saying.</p>
<p>“We are gratified that the Court has granted our motion for access to her medical records, as it is a standard request in lawsuits where a plaintiff demands millions of dollars for claims of emotional distress.”</p>
<p>Lawyers for Vanessa Bryant did not immediately comment.</p>
			<div style="padding-bottom:15px;" class="wordads-tag" data-slot-type="belowpost">
				<div id="atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2b5577805">
					<script type="text/javascript">
						window.getAdSnippetCallback = function () {
							if ( false === ( window.isWatlV1 ?? false ) ) {
								// Use Aditude scripts.
								window.tudeMappings = window.tudeMappings || [];
								window.tudeMappings.push( {
									divId: 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2b5577805',
									format: 'belowpost',
								} );
							}
						}

						if ( document.readyState === 'loading' ) {
							document.addEventListener( 'DOMContentLoaded', window.getAdSnippetCallback );
						} else {
							window.getAdSnippetCallback();
						}
					</script>
				</div>
			</div>
Discover more from London Glossy Post
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
