United States v. University Hospital, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Parents of Baby Jane Doe, Intervenors-Defendants-Appellees

GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

This expedited appeal presents the question whether Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 794 (Supp. V 1981), and one of its implementing regulations, 45 C.F.R. § 84.61 (1982) (incorporating 45 C.F.R. § 80.6(c) (1982)), authorize the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to obtain access to medical records maintained by defendant University Hospital concerning a seriously deformed newborn infant, identified only as Baby Jane Doe, whose parents have refused to consent to certain surgical procedures necessary…