COM'R OF PUBLIC HEALTH v. FREEDOM OF INFO.

No. 19046.

86 A.3d 1044 (2014)

311 Conn. 262

COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC HEALTH v. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION et al.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided March 25, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosemary M. McGovern , assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, was George Jepsen , attorney general, for the appellant-appellee (plaintiff).

Jonathan R. Donnellan , pro hac vice, with whom were Stephen H. Yuhan , pro hac vice, and, on the brief, Cameron Stracher, for the appellee-appellant (defendant Greenwich Time).

Lisa Fein Siegel , commission counsel, with whom, on the brief, was Colleen M. Murphy , general counsel, for the appellee (named defendant).

David B. Fein , United States attorney, John B. Hughes , assistant United States attorney, Michael S. Raab , pro hac vice, and H. Thomas Byron III , pro hac vice, filed a brief for the United States of America as amicus curiae.

ROGERS, C.J., and PALMER, ZARELLA, EVELEIGH, McDONALD and VERTEFEUILLE, Js.


McDONALD, J.

Congress created the National Practitioner Data Bank (Practitioner Data Bank) and the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (Healthcare Data Bank) as national clearinghouses for, inter alia, information from health care entities and licensing boards regarding adverse actions taken against physicians and other licensed health care practitioners. The question we must answer in the present case is whether records received from these federal data...

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