JARVIS v. WELLMAN

No. 93-6415.

52 F.3d 125 (1995)

Cathy JARVIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Billy WELLMAN; John T. Wigginton; AI C. Parke; and Steve Smith, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 24, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Roberts (argued and briefed) and Mark S. Medlin, Whitlow, Roberts, Houston & Russell, Paducah, KY, for plaintiff-appellee.

Barbara W. Jones (argued and briefed), Office of the Gen. Counsel, Corrections Cabinet, Frankfort, KY, for defendants-appellants.

Before: NORRIS and SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judges; MILES, District Judge.


ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal from a denial of qualified immunity obliges us to determine whether the unauthorized release of confidential medical information violates a constitutional privacy right. We conclude that it does not and therefore reverse the order of the district court.

I.

Plaintiff, Cathy Jarvis, brought this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against officials of the Corrections Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky...

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