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Full Title:

Feds Get the Power to Seize Medical Records on 'Fishing Expedition' Investigations with No Subpoena from a Judge

[who_would_fardels_bear]

For those people who have heart conditions, I hope the government takes note of that before sending them off to 'Information Retrieval' ...

[null and void]

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The biggest killer of mankind

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[JDoutrider]

Tyranny...

[Whenifhow]

From the article:

A 1946 Supreme Court opinion used in the Zadeh case to justify warrantless searches of medical records received a scathing and prescient dissent by liberal Justice Frank Murphy. Murphy wrote:

To allow a nonjudicial officer, unarmed with judicial process, to demand the books and papers of an individual is an open invitation to abuse of that power. It is no answer that the individual may refuse to produce the material demanded. Many persons have yielded solely because of the air of authority with which the demand is made, a demand that cannot be enforced without subsequent judicial aid. Many invasions of private rights thus occur without the restraining hand of the judiciary ever intervening.

Only by confining the subpoena power exclusively to the judiciary can there be any insurance against this corrosion of liberty. Statutory enforcement would not thereby be made impossible. Indeed, it would be made easier. A people’s desire to cooperate with the enforcement of a statute is in direct proportion to the respect for individual rights shown in the enforcement process.

Quoting the Declaration of Independence, Justice Murphy noted how such methods of searches were so contrary to liberty and law that they previously contributed to “successful revolt.”

[JohnBovenmyer]

HIPAA, the one part of HillaryCare that was passed, claims to be to protect medical privacy, but in reality lets the government have whatever it wants.

[Pollster1]

This needs to be fixed. Restraints on government power apply to all government entities, not just to police. I’m generally not a fan of civil rights lawsuits, but I’d give the victims of this thuggish action hundreds of millions of dollars each - so much that it would deter future violations of the 4th Amendment.

[Gunslingr3]

So how many Freepers still support the War on Drugs?

[S.O.S121.500]

Had ENOUGH Yet ?