United States v. Sutherland

OPINION AND ORDER

JONES, District Judge.

In this appeal by the government from a magistrate judge’s order, I uphold the magistrate judge’s denial of a hospital’s motion to quash the government’s subpoenas of certain medical records, although for reasons different from those relied upon by the magistrate judge. Accordingly, I will require that the government provide notice to the patients affected by the subpoenas or show cause why notice is not appropriate.

The defendant in these criminal cases consolidated for trial is a medical doctor accused of the unlawful distribution and dispensing of…