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Royal Suites Health Care & Rehabilitation, et al. v. Joseph S. Ingemi, Jr.
Paid petition · Supreme Court of New Jersey, No. M-848, M-849 · judgment May 30, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether the patient privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 1320d, et seq., and its regulations, protects against discovery of “individually identifiable health information” of non-parties to the pending litigation against a health care provider, where the information sought is at best tangentially relevant to the underlying claims of negligence against the provider, even though courts ostensibly have authority to direct disclosure of protected information that violates HIPAA?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Ira L. Podheiser
Burns White, LLC
For respondent
Michael Sean Ringold Jr.
Dansky, Katz & Ringold
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 06 2025Petition DENIED.
- Oct 03 2025Motion of Royal Suites Health Care & Rehabilitation, et al. to dismiss submitted.
- Aug 06 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
- Jul 29 2025Waiver of right of respondent Joseph S. Ingemi, Jr. to respond filed.
- Jul 16 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 18, 2025)