Posted on 12/12/2005 2:30:51 PM PST by M. Thatcher
MIAMI, Dec 12, 2005 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh's attorney, issued the following statement regarding Judge David F. Crow's decision today prohibiting prosecutors from asking the talk show host's doctors about his medical treatment and condition or information he shared with his doctors during his care and treatment.
Judge Crow's ruling upholds our argument that the State cannot breach doctor-patient confidentiality just because it has obtained some medical records, and thus the state cannot ask the doctors its questions posed to the court during the hearing.
Judge Crow's decision prohibits the State from questioning Mr. Limbaugh's physicians about "the medical condition of the patient and any information disclosed to the healthcare practitioner by the patient in the course of the care and treatment of the patient."
We are pleased with the court's ruling upholding the patient's statutory right of doctor-patient confidentiality. We've said from the start that there was no doctor shopping but Mr. Limbaugh should not have to give up his right to doctor-patient confidentiality to prove his innocence.
The medical records that the State has seized and reviewed now for nearly six months show that Mr. Limbaugh received legitimate medical treatment for legitimate medical reasons. Mr. Limbaugh has not been charged with a crime and he should not be charged.
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Us too. Maybe he was in court with his attorney, Roy Black.
Yes, apparently this decision was today.
In our Courts the decision is just handed out by the Clerk, but no Court time is used.
That would be HIS business wouldn't it?
Excellent!!!
Another kick in the groin for DUmmies!
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Rush gets a deserved win and we ALL benefit by this ruling!
be sure to tune in tomorrow ...........noon o'clock EST ................can't wait to hear what he has to say
Just a leetle mite touchy there, aincha?
"scuse me? A two time loser extorting money has credibility?
And you believe the word of a maid who has confessed to blackmailing Rush and has been paid six figures to tell this story??? Take your 'justice' elsewhere.
If Al Franken or any other Hollywood Celebrity did what Rush did then you would be calling for death penalty.
Why are you so generous towards Rush?
Because you like his politics?
Then you are not any better than the zombies who supported TRIPOTUS.
Great news. I would like to say this was expected, but one cannot always rely on the courts to actually follow the law.
Nope. Not touchy at all. Just find it bothersome anymore with so many people into the lives of so many others these days.
I personally wish Rush Limbaugh a happy life and if that includes marrying again then I'm all for it. He is a man of distinction, character and dignity and has done one heckuva lot for this country. I just choose to stay out of his personal life.
and a victory for the rest of the country.
Oh, didn't know that. Well then, maybe he was out celebrating his victory for himself and the rest of our country. I'm happy for Rush.
Good day for liberty. I'll take one small step at a time.
A little over the top are we?
Hollywood Celebrities have done this and worse, yet I have not read anywhere on this forum a call for their death.
There have been suggestion for those that stated they would leave the country if Bush got elected to do so, and there have been calls for some to just shut up, but that is a far cry from avocating their death.Do you want to reconsider your statement?
OK. Not death penalty.
10 years in prison? 20?
No one would think it was harmless crime.
Obviously self medication has drawbacks. For one, it cost Rush his hearing, but should self medication be a crime?
Were you laughing at Brett Favre when he got addicted to pain meds?
See what our glorious little War on Drugs does for us? I have absolutely no problem decriminalizing possession and use of any drug or narcotic by adults for their own use. None. Are there laws preventing an adult from drinking oneself to death or destriction? Or smoking to death? Nope. And there shouldn't be, either.
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