· 2/27/1987
In Re Search Warrant (Sealed)
Citations
- 810 F.2d 67
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that state’s interest in investigating physician for health care fraud outweighed patients’ privacy interest in medical records
- balancing patients’ rights to privacy in medical records against government intrusion through warrant directed to physician under investigation for insurance fraud
- affirming denial of motion to suppress medical records because government’s interest in investigating physician for possible insurance fraud outweighed his patients’ privacy interest in their medical records
- “A significant exception, however, allows for immediate appeal of orders that are sufficiently independent from the anticipated criminal proceeding.”
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Judges: Gibbons, Becker, Fullam
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