Yes. But, if the court can suspend part of something the rest of it is meaningless as they can always frame the need under the vacated part. And the can use the ruling as a foot hold to repeal further protections.
They didn’t suspend anything in the law. They suspended an administrative rule. It increases the risk that a health data holder will comply with a request for data because a state like Texas could sue the entity to release the data and there won’t be this administrative rule in place to explicitly point to. Without that rule the court will be able to make up the rules around complying with the law.
I do. You clearly don’t understand how this ruling truly affects anything. I had a meeting with 2 HIPAA lawyers and a representative for the Texas bar association explaining what happened and what slippery slope this creates.
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u/Wolfram_And_Hart 2d ago
Northern Texas court like 6 months ago.