Case: Discrimination/Retaliation (D. Me.)

A Maine federal district court denied a female pediatric critical care physician’s objection to a Magistrate Judge’s discovery order and affirmed the denial of her motion to compel disclosure of a nonparty minor patient’s medical records in her sex discrimination and whistleblower retaliation claims under the Maine Human Rights Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and the Maine Whistleblowers’ Protection Act against Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems and Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, finding the records had minimal probative value to her claims and that patient privacy concerns outweighed potential benefits of disclosure.

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