patient-privacy
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A283 | Thomas Oscar Cady v. Washington | Washington | 2025-09-11 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-privacy criminal-evidence due-process hospital-records medical-records patient-privacy | Whether a criminal defendant's medical records from a hospital stay following an alleged attack can be obtained and used as evidence in a criminal pro… | |
| 25-5468 | Robert A. Moylan v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-communications criminal-investigation fourth-amendment overbroad-seizure patient-privacy search-warrant | Whether a search warrant authorizing seizure of a substance abuse counselor's entire patient files and confidential communications without in camera r… |
| 24-1036 | LaWanda Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-31 | Denied | Response Waived | confidentiality-regulations court-order federal-procedure patient-privacy substance-abuse-records summary-judgment | Whether summary judgment is appropriate when patient record information is used in a court order application in violation of confidentiality regulatio… |
| 24A449 | Carla Davis, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process medical-records national-security patient-privacy | Whether the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments protect citizens' medical records from being classified under national security without access or… | |
| 22-1037 | Howard Center v. AFSCME Local 1674, et al. | Vermont | 2023-04-25 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration-review civil-rights disciplinary-sanctions due-process federal-regulations health-privacy healthcare-regulation hipaa hipaa-privacy-rule patient-privacy workforce-compliance workforce-sanctions | Whether a covered entity must ensure HIPAA Privacy Rule compliance by its workforce, adopt a sanction policy, and apply appropriate sanctions against … |
| 21-7834 | Anne P. Mulligan v. Johnna Kohl | Alaska | 2022-05-11 | Denied | IFP | billing-practices charity-care medicaid-fraud medical-billing medical-ethics patient-privacy physician-ethics tax-deduction tax-deductions | Can a physician legally obtain a patient's Medicaid information without the patient's knowledge and bill Medicaid? |
| 21-5979 | Leihinahina Sullivan, aka Jennifer Sullivan v. Reneau Kennedy, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-subpoena medical-records patient-privacy psychotherapist-patient-privilege standing | Does a judge vested by statute to subpoena a criminal defendant's treating psychotherapist-patient records, cannot over a criminal defendant's express… |
| 20-1441 | George Beecher v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2021-04-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment patient-privacy patient-records prescription-monitoring privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-search state-pdmp-laws third-party-doctrine | Did the New Jersey Supreme Court err in adopting a ruling that a defendant prescriber does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in patient pre… |
| 18-5733 | Steven Pinder v. Alva Green McDowell, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process medical-records patient-privacy patient-privilege privilege standing | Whether the 'propagated authorization' for release of medical records put forth by the defendants is in fact constitutional? |