YouTube LLC, A&E Television Inc., and others didn’t violate federal health-care privacy law by broadcasting live as police transported a mental-health care patient to a medical facility.
The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act doesn’t allow a person to sue another for disclosing his or her private medical information. Chad Holley’s HIPAA claim, therefore, was frivolous and should be dismissed, a federal magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio recommended Dec. 10.
Holley alleged he was involved in a “suicide situation” in Pasco County, Fla., that resulted in the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office ...
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