Citizens for Health v. Leavitt

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a “violation of a citizen’s right to medical privacy rises to the level of a constitutional claim only when that violation can properly be ascribed to the government. The Constitution protects against state interference with fundamental rights.”
• considering whether there was state action because although the plaintiffs challenged a rule promulgated by the Secretary of Health, the alleged injury was disclosure of medical information “by third parties”
• “Ta a due process claim brought under the Fifth Amendment, the ‘State’ in the state action analysis is the federal government.”
• “[I]t is well established that the substantive component of due process, embodied in . . . the Fifth . . . Amendment[], provides heightened protection against government interference with certain fundamental rights and liberty interests.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).