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Lawsuit Alleges IRS Improperly Seized 60M Personal Medical Records
The Internal Revenue Service is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that more than 60 million personal medical records were improperly seized by agents. According to a story by Courthousenews.com, an unnamed healthcare provider in California is suing the IRS and 15 unnamed agents, alleging that they improperly seized some 60 million medical records of 10 million Americans, including medical records of all California state judges on March 11, 2011.According to the complaint, the IRS agents had a search warrant for financial data pertaining to a former employee of the John Doe Company, however, it did not authorize any seizure of any healthcare or medical record of any persons, least of all third parties completely unrelated to the matter. The claim asserts that the IRS agents seizure of medical records violated the 4th Amendment. No search warrant authorized the seizure of these records; no subpoena authorized the seizure of these records; none of the 10,000,000 Americans were under any kind of known criminal or civil investigation and their medical records had no relevance whatsoever to the IRS search. IT personnel at the scene, a HIPAA facility warning on the building and the IT portion of the searched premises, and the company executives each warned the IRS agents of these privileged records. The IRS has not returned requests for comment. Posted by: Pappy 2013-05-20 |
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