A client has a privilege to refuse to disclose, and to prevent any other person from disclosing confidential communications among the client, the client’s social worker or any other person who is participating in the diagnosis or treatment under the direction of the social worker.
NRS 49.252
General rule of privilege
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Ashokan v. State, Department of Insurance (1993)
Most recently applied in Diaz v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada (January 2000)
(Added to NRS by 1987, 1122)
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.