February 04, 2025
The government's decision in the early days of the Trump administration to drop charges that a Texas surgeon leaked information about minors receiving gender-affirming care to a conservative journalist is raising concerns about the "politicization" of federal health privacy enforcement.
January 24, 2025
The federal government has dropped criminal charges against a Texas surgeon accused of improperly accessing patient information and sharing information about the hospital's gender-affirming care practices with the press.
December 03, 2024
Michigan's attorney general has agreed not to hold a Christian healthcare provider accountable to certain antidiscrimination protections related to gender and sexuality while the provider challenges them in court. Meanwhile, a New York federal judge decided to keep the largest anesthesiology provider in the U.S. on the hook for antitrust claims over its noncompete agreements with clinicians.
November 27, 2024
X Corp has told a Texas federal judge that government prosecutors were trying to "muzzle" a doctor accused of sharing protected patient information while talking to the press about a hospital's gender-affirming care practices, saying the government was out of line.
October 30, 2024
A Houston federal judge has denied a motion from a pediatric surgeon who asked for access to grand jury materials in his case involving alleged HIPAA violations, issuing a brief order without further explanation.
September 20, 2024
A Houston judge declined to take up allegations that a government prosecutor participated in a case against a Texas surgeon while her law license was suspended, denying the doctor's show cause motion in a brief order Thursday.
September 19, 2024
A Texas surgeon facing criminal charges for giving patient data to a media outlet regarding gender-affirming care provided to minors accused the government's lead prosecutor of taking the case while she had a suspended law license, a blunder the attorney called an unintentional error on Thursday.
July 02, 2024
The fate of a criminal case against a Texas surgeon accused of using deception to get protected patient information may hinge on whether a jury buys prosecutors' story that Dr. Eithan Haim was pursuing a "personal agenda" or his likely defense: that he was an honest whistleblower concerned about gender-affirming care for minors.