Rush Limbaugh Asks High Court To Give Medical Records Back

[indigobusiness]

Limbaugh: Patients Should Be Notified Before Records Seized

POSTED: 4:06 pm EST January 20, 2005
UPDATED: 4:51 pm EST January 20, 2005

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Rush Limbaugh asked the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday to return his medical records to his doctors and permanently keep them from prosecutors investigating his use of painkillers.



Limbaugh alleged that his privacy was violated when the records were seized in 2003 and has fought to keep them sealed. Lower courts have sided with prosecutors, who are investigating whether Limbaugh engaged in "doctor shopping," or illegally visiting several doctors to receive duplicate prescriptions.

Limbaugh wants the state Supreme Court to decide that patients should be notified before their medical records are seized or inspected.

"The state has acknowledged that as a matter of strategy it made no good faith effort to comply with these requirements," Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, said in a statement. "They have admitted that they intentionally chose to bypass the notice and hearing requirements so they could leaf through all of his medical records looking for something to charge. Suppression of the records is the only fair remedy."

Prosecutors insist that giving Limbaugh notice of their plan to seize the records would have compromised their investigation. Assistant State Attorney James Martz has said the Legislature has protected law enforcement's ability to conduct criminal investigations. He had no immediate comment on Thursday.


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[Bake]

1. But Rush, isn't that "judicial activism?"

If the State Legislature wanted that to be the law, it could pass a statute to that effect. Surely you don't want judges legislating from the bench, do you, Rush?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You fucking hypocrite.

Bake

[jdj]

3. funny.

He's stupid to press this, he should just let it go.

Isn't he the one that always said 'there is no constitutional right to privacy"?

[1monster]

8. There is in Florida... The right to privacy is in the

Florida Constitution... I can't tell you precisely where, but I was informed by an ALCU lawyer in Florida that there is a Contitutional right to privacy for this state.

[snippy]

4. Better be careful there.

You may make some shittoheads' heads explode.

[whistle]

2. Rush wants them back so he can make a correction, he was...

...spotted at Office Depot the other day purchasing 24 bottles of white-out and will be changing all references to Oxycoton in his records to now read oxymoron!

[zbdent]

5. Sounds like some whiney-ass crybaby's civil rights got

goose-stepped on . . .

[central scrutinizer]

6. Oh please, let somebody leak them onto the Internet

After all, according to pigboy, drug users shouldn't have any constitutional rights.

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[Straight Shooter]

12. Rush Limbaugh isn't just anybody

He's the mouthpiece of the Monkey Palace, he's a hypocrite, he's broken the law, he's a bigoted, homophobic, lying, stealing, cheating POS.

He's fair game, after what he's said about anyone he perceives as "the enemy."

Since when does DU have to play fair with people like Rush Limbaugh? Did he cry foul when the Swift Boat Liars were smearing Kerry? Hell, no.

So, f*ck Rush and his so-called privacy. He's been pulling strings that most of us have never even heard of.

[tx_dem41]

16. To me medical records are as close to sacrosanct as it gets.

If his aren't private, then none of ours are. The ACLU agrees with Rush on this one and is defending him.

[Anakin Skywalker]

7. Hah Hah, Rush.

Go sit in your own stew, you hypocritical sack of bleep.

[MeDeMax]

10. tune out Rush radio stations, tune in liberal stations...

Economic buycotts have often been effective in making giant corps rethink their policies.

By tuning out stations that mostly carry conservative hosts like the one being discussed on this thread, and tuning into stations that also feature progressive & liberal hosts like those featured on Air America
( http://www.airamericaradio.com/ ) you are effectively boycotting biased media and putting them on notice.

It boggles my mind that in Cleveland-Ohio, perhaps the most progressive corner in Ohio, Rush Hannity & other conservatives are aired during the day while progressive/liberal syndications aren't aired until the graveyard shift.

Find a station near you at the above link.

-max

[Sgent]

11. The ACLU

is supporting Rush in this -- and has filed briefs on his behalf.

[Straight Shooter]

13. And we should never let him forget it, or his listeners

This is an excellent point to make to any right-winger-dinger who thinks Rush is great and the ACLU is communist.

[Isere]

15. Which will not, of course,

stop El Douchebag from trashing the ACLU.

[tx_dem41]

17. In the long run, I care much more that MY medical records are ...

truly private (and not open to the whim of the Government), than scoring short-term political points. Its called being principled.

[David Zephyr]

14. Justice Thomas & Sen. Santorum to Rush: There's NO Privacy Right.

Which is so funny because not one single person in the press has EVER asked either Scalia or Santorum why they disagree with Rush Limbaugh who claims there is a right to privacy.

Which is it, Rush? Is your good buddy, Clarence --- who you gave cigars to --- wrong when he says that there is no right to privacy in America? Is Rick Wrong?

And Rush baby, why is it that you NEVER mention on your radio "show" that both Clarence and Santorum have gone on the record as saying that there is no such thing as a right to privacy?

[daleo]

18. Why hasn't he been charged yet?

I mean, what's the holdup? It has been at least a year, I think. Martha Stewart will be out of jail before this guy ever sees a court room, if he ever does. And how about Kenny boy?