A patient has a privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing confidential communications between the patient and the patient’s psychologist or any other person who is participating in the diagnosis or treatment under the direction of the psychologist, including a member of the patient’s family.
NRS 49.209
General rule of privilege
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Diaz v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada (2000)
Most recently applied in BRADLEY VS. DIST. CT. (HUDSON) (November 2017)
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2497)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.