Alexander Oberlander v. David Oberlander and Conway Neurology, P.A.

── Alexander Oberlander v. David Oberlander and Conway Neurology, P.A. ── Court: Court of Appeals of Arkansas Date: April 08, 2026 Category: General Cite as 2026 Ark. App. 228 ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS DIVISION IV No. CV-24-749 Opinion Delivered April 8, 2026 ALEXANDER OBERLANDER APPEAL FROM THE FAULKNER APPELLANT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT [NO. 23CV-23-208] V. HONORABLE CHARLES E. DAVID OBERLANDER AND CONWAY CLAWSON III, JUDGE NEUROLOGY, P.A. APPELLEES SUBSTITUTED OPINION ON DENIAL OF MOTION TO REDACT OR SEAL PORTION OF OPINION AFFIRMED CINDY GRACE THYER, Judge Alexander Oberlander appeals a Faulkner County Circuit Court order granting summary judgment in favor of his father, David Overlander, and his father’s medical clinic, Conway Neurology, P.A., and dismissing his tort-of-outrage and invasion-of-privacy claims. We affirm. Alexander’s parents, Nicole and David Oberlander, divorced in Alabama in 1998 when Alexander was two. As part of the divorce, David and Nicole entered into a property- settlement and child-custody agreement whereby David agreed to pay $2,000 a month in child support until Alexander turned twenty-one, married, or otherwise became self- supporting. Child support was to be paid to Nicole until Alexander turned nineteen, then payments would be made directly to Alexander. The agreement further provided that “[e]ach party shall further have the right to obtain medical records of the child from any provider regardless of which party secured the medical service on behalf of the child.” David subsequently failed to make the court-ordered child-support payments, and in March 2021, Nicole filed a motion for contempt against him seeking $48,000 in back child support and other unpaid medical and educational expenses. David filed a formal response to the motion. He then testified at a February 2022 hearing on the motion that he had not paid child support to Alexander out of concern for him. David then allegedly produced, in open court, a collection of Alexander’s medical records to support his claims. Alexander, who was twenty-five at the time of the hearing, was not present, although he was supposed to attend the hearing by Zoom.1 The cover sheet accompanying the medical records indicated that the records were faxed from Alexander’s medical provider to Conway Neurology on April 13, 2016; therefore, Alexander was twenty years old—an adult—when the medical records were accessed. At close of the hearing, the court ordered David to pay the past medical and educational expenses as well as the back child support. However, the court held Alexander in contempt for his failure to attend the hearing and delayed David’s payment of child support to him until Alexander presented himself to the court. 1 Alexander was allegedly in Russia attending medical school at the time. 2  Another hearing was held in January 2023. Alexander appeared at that hearing, and the court set aside the finding of contempt and ordered David to begin making payments to Alexander on his arrearages. Alexander claims it was at this hearing that he discovered David had accessed his medical records and entered them into the record. As a result of this discovery, Alexander filed suit against David and his clinic, 2 claiming that David had not been authorized to access his medical records and that David had improperly disclosed his private medical information during the contempt hearing. He claimed that this improper disclosure caused him irreparable reputational harm, humiliation, and