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RAIN 0714 Weekly Update: Legal (8)



Healthcare Intelligence Network 7/8/02
Train office managers to keep physicians compliant with HIPAA
http://www.hin.com/sw/healthLaw_regulation.html


CNN.com 7/8/02
Will Our Records Stay Private When We Go to Our Doctor?
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/08/ltm.01.html


Star Tribune 7/9/02
Librarians agonizing over new law letting FBI check records
Statewire
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Wisconsin librarians are trying to find a balance between library user privacy and complying with a new federal law giving FBI agents power to demand records of what people are reading.
" We' re not very good at being junior police officers, " said Phyllis Davis, a
legislative advocate for the Wisconsin Library Association. " It' s kind of a
shocking idea to librarians."
http://www.startribune.com/stories/568/3047204.html


Detroit Free Press 7/9/02
Kmart told to turn over documents
BY LORENE YUE
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
A U.S. House committee investigating the nation's widening corporate accounting scandals demanded Monday that 13 troubled companies, including Troy-based Kmart Corp., turn over documents on their management and financial practices.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/3626204.htm


AP 7/11/02
Judge Keeps Baseball Papers Private
By BRIAN BAKST
The Associated Press
Web Posted : 07/10/2002 5:48 PM
ST. PAUL. Minn. (AP) _ The public won't get to look at internal baseball memos
and financial documents collected during a lawsuit that spared the Minnesota Twins
from elimination, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Hennepin County District Judge Harry Seymour Crump ordered the Metropolitan
Sports Facilities Commission to destroy or return all materials the Twins turned over
during the now-settled lawsuit. Crump denied requests from several media
organizations to obtain the material under the Minnesota Data Practices Act.
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=apwire&xlb=30&xlc=723732


Bloomberg.com 7/12/02
Goodyear Loses Fight to Keep Records Sealed in Suit (Update2)
By Lawrence Viele
Trenton, New Jersey, July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. lost a bid to block the release of court records related to alleged tread defects on tires used on vans and ambulances.
A New Jersey judge, presiding over a wrongful death suit concerning Goodyear Load Range E tires, ruled Wednesday that the public has the right to see production data and customer complaint figures for LRE tires. Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, a Washington-based advocacy group, sued to open the sealed court records in November 2000.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=finer99_auto.ht&s=APS9BGxU8R29vZHll


The Salt Lake Tribune 7/13/02
Judge Unseals Secret Memos In Tribune Suit
by Elizabeth Neff
The public has a right to see secret Deseret News correspondence with the
First Presidency of the LDS Church about attempts to purchase The Salt
Lake Tribune, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart on Thursday ordered scores of pages of
documents unsealed in the court battle over ownership of The Tribune.
Stewart's decision came nine days after a group of Utah media agencies
asked the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to force the judge to rule on
their request to open documents in the case.
http://www.sltrib.com/07132002/utah/753314.htm


New York Times 7/13/02
Records of Two Utilities Are Subpoenaed
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 12 (Bloomberg News) — The Duke Energy Corporation and the El Paso Corporation said today that they had received subpoenas for trading records from authorities looking into sham transactions in natural gas and electricity.
Duke said the requests for its documents came from the United States attorney's office in Houston, as part of a grand jury investigation, and from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. El Paso, the operator of the largest natural gas pipeline network in the United States, received its subpoena from the United States attorney in Houston.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/13/business/13ENER.html



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va