Sherlock v. Fontainebleau

ORDER CONCERNING COURT’S ABILITY TO REQUIRE PLAINTIFFS TO SIGN HIPAA MEDICAL AUTHORIZATION FORMS

Jonathan Goodman, UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

The parties in both cases designated above are simultaneously involved in an identical discovery issue: whether the Court can require Plaintiffs to sign a HI-PAA1 medical authorization form for the release of medical records from third party healthcare providers because they have placed the physical and/or mental conditions at issue. In fact, the discovery hearings in these two otherwise unrelated cases fortuitously occurred on the very same…