United States v. Tereall Green

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the disclosure of an inmate’s diagnosis and treatment compliance to guards and other inmates was not actionable due in part to location where it was made
• explaining that prisoners have limited expectations of privacy in prison, restricted primarily to “bodily privacy and integrity”
• noting that “[e]very circuit to consider whether HIPAA created a private right to sue has found that it does not,” and citing cases from the Second, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits (emphasis in original)
• applying the constitutional right of privacy to an inmate’s claim that, when a doctor revealed the inmate was HIV+, he violated his constitutional rights
• assessing whether Fourteenth Amendment privacy rights applied to the accidental disclosure of inmate’s medical condition
• “Every circuit court to consider whether HIPAA created a private right to sue has found that it does not.” (emphasis omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).