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On June 23, as its 2010 term drew to a close, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its much-awaited decision in Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. (No. 10-779), holding that Vermont's Act 80, prohibiting access to certain information on physicians' prescribing practices for use in marketing brand-name drugs, violated the First Amendment
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a constitutional challenge to a Vermont statute barring the sale or use of prescriber-identifiable data for the marketing of prescription drugs
On June 23, the Minnesota Court of Appeals, the state's intermediate appellate court, provided two significant privacy-related rulings in Yath v. Fairview Clinics
The Georgia Supreme Court's potentially important May 14 decision in Allen v. Wright, 2007 Ga. Lexis 343, held that the HIPAA Privacy Rule preempted Georgia's 2005 tort reform statute requiring malpractice plaintiffs to file with their complaints a "medical authorization form" enabling the defendants' attorneys to obtain and disclose protected health information to facilitate their defense of the plaintiff's claims
