Posted on 08/25/2016 9:50:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Florida judge has green-lighted Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against ESPN and its reporter Adam Schefter for posting his private medical records online to millions of readers.
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The NFL star says Schefter “improperly obtained” Pierre-Paul’s medical chart, showing the defensive end had his right index finger amputated, and posted an image of the records on his Twitter page.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
HIPAA. This is journalism 101. I hope JPP gets $50 million from those leftist bastards.
Maybe lawsuits can get us back to objective journalism. Leftists hate when you take other people’s money away from them.
Someone notify Johnny Depp and TMZ.
“I hope JPP gets $50 million from those leftist bastards.”
Damages? The whole world knew his finger was amputated ...
I despise ESPN and most all media and hope they get nailed!
That said, WHAT AMOUNT OF US DOLLARS WAS HE DAMAGED???
No “DAMAGES” no case. That principal in litigation is to law what a motor
is to a car.
Good.
Apparently the press needs to be taught yet another lesson
Yep, pretty clear case of HIPPA violations at the very least... ESPN will pay a pretty damned penny for this.
Disappointed to see Adam Schefter involved in this. He was a local reporter in Denver covering the Broncos back when they did their back to back super bowl championships in 98-99. The national press started reading his coverage of the Broncos, and he moved to ESPN. He was a good reporter back then.
Sorry but your private medical record being made public, yea, there’s damages there... invasion of privacy to say the very least... are you claiming your personal privacy has no value?
The fact this record got out in the first place, unless it was given to the press by the patient himself or they explicitly granted someone else permission to give it to the press, is a fineable violation of up to $50,000 in and of itself.
Your attempt to claim than the destruction of your privacy has no value, is frighteningly orwellian.
“Damages? The whole world knew his finger was amputated ...”
True enough. However, they put his medical records online with images. That is a big NO - NO!
I also despise ESPN and feel repulsed when hearing their bumper music.
Oh, um, “No damages, no case” is a principle and Sister Mary Charles is a principal. She’s a real pal.
Go ahead and bankrupt the bigoted ESPN.
Of course. ESPN isn't above the law. ESPN violated HIPAA laws.
Under obamacare rules all medical records go to the IRS. So there is no longer confidentialty between doctor and patient. All any self serving journalist or politician has to do is get your IRS file.
I could easily see the NFL player winning $1 in actual damages and $50M in punitive damages in a case like this.
If we really had a Justice System instead of a Just Us System, the DOJ would have SHUT DOWN ESPN already as a Criminal Enterprise, Began Civil Asset Forfeiture, and most likely started CRIMINAL PROSECUTION against the reporter and his editors.
How did especially violate hipaa ?
Obtained JPP’s private medical records without his consent.
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