Cerebral Class Action Defense Fan Fiction, Dobbs Edition
End HIPAA to save privacy!
Oh my God, not again…a defense of Cerebral!?!
This column makes the argument that we should rush to the defense of Cerebral, in order to preserve the reproductive rights of women. In order to do that, I'm going to support the following decision, also, I let chat GPT delete some of what I wrote to make it more concise, and then I had to edit it all over again. It’s a terrible writer!
DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION…
I know, right?
Cerebral has been sued, and a bunch of of other Telehealth operators are theoretically on the hook, for breaches of privacy1.
I believe the best response to this, from a legal perspective, is to challenge the ability of anyone to file a lawsuit for privacy in federal court at all.
There is no federal right to privacy. Thus, it is not something that is appropriately or even possibly adjudicated in a federal court.
The federal right to privacy was created by the decision of the Supreme Court in a case we're all familiar with, and many of us mourn th…