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The Florida Supreme Court paved the way, and now prosecutors looking to investigate Rush Limbaugh for "doctor shopping" have filed paperwork seeking to open his medical records. Rush has never been charged with a crime, yet in 2003, authorities seized his medical records in order to ascertain whether or not he doctor shopped - i.e. went to different doctors at the same time to get overlapping prescriptions - for painkillers. At 8:30 Monday morning, Palm Beach Circuit Judge Jeffrey Winikoff will hold a hearing to decide what to do with Limbaugh's heretofore personal, confidential records, reports Florida's Sun-Sentinel paper. The...

Now, ladies and gentlemen, before we get into the sterling and wonderful debate analysis that I have for you, let me address a bit of news involving me today. About 10:30 morning, the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Florida ruled that my medical records were legally seized by the state attorney's office here in Palm Beach County by search warrant. As you know, we appealed that seizure on the basis that the Florida legislature and the Florida Constitution. The legislature's history and the constitution here's right to privacy forbad a seizure by search warrant of medical records that instead...

MIAMI, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Stating that Rush Limbaugh should not have to give up his rights to privacy to prove his innocence, attorney Roy Black said today that he would immediately appeal to overturn today's decision by a two-judge majority of a three-judge panel from the state's Fourth District Court of Appeal. "We strongly disagree with the decision of the Court majority because it does not recognize a patient's right to medical privacy that the U.S. Congress, the Florida Legislature and the citizens of Florida have granted to patients such as Mr. Limbaugh, who has not even been charged...