U.S. Department of Justice v. Jonas

  • Filed: 05/29/2019
  • Status: Closed
  • Latest Update: May 29, 2019
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This is a "friend of the court" brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit by the ACLU of RI, the National ACLU, the ACLUs of New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts and Puerto Rico, and the New Hampshire Medical Society. The brief is in support of New Hampshire’s resistance to an administrative subpoena it received from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, seeking two years of information from the state’s prescription drug (PDMP) database about a patient. The brief argues that law enforcement agents need a judicial warrant in order to obtain information from state PDMP databases.

Attorney(s):
Nathan Freed Wessler, Robert B. Mann

ACLU in Court Thursday, October 10, to Secure Warrant Protections for Private Health Information

The ACLU will be in court on Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 9:30am to argue that the federal government must obtain a warrant before accessing the private health information in New Hampshire’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). The hearing will be held in Boston before the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

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ACLU Brief Challenges Police Access to Prescription Database Without a Warrant

In a case with major implications for the medical privacy rights of Rhode Islanders, the ACLU of Rhode Island has today joined with the National ACLU, four other ACLU Affiliates, and the New Hampshire Medical Society in filing a “friend of the court” brief arguing that law enforcement agents need a judicial warrant in order to obtain information from state prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) databases.

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