In the case of Tarosoff v. The Regents of the University of California (1976), the court said that health care providers have a duty to breach confidentiality when:

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In Tarasoff v. The Regents of the University of California (1976), the court ruled that mental health professionals have a duty to protect individuals who are being threatened with bodily harm by a patient. This duty may require the professional to breach confidentiality if a client makes a specific threat against an identifiable person. This case established the principle that the duty to protect the intended victim outweighs the duty to maintain the client's confidentiality in such specific threat scenarios.

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