The Pennsylvania Superior Court has held that the Mental Health Procedures Act and the psychotherapist-patient privilege did not prevent the operators of a mental health facility from answering a request for admissions regarding their knowledge of a patient’s sex offender status.

In a published March 25 opinion, a three-judge panel of the appeals court affirmed a Philadelphia trial judge’s ruling in Pasquini v. Fairmount Behavioral Health System, granting plaintiff Brianna Pasquini’s motion to strike objections to requests for admission and requiring defendants Fairmount Behavioral Health System and UHS of Fairmount to either admit or deny whether they knew a fellow patient accused of raping Pasquini was a registered sex offender in January 2016.

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