HULL, Circuit Judge:
This appeal involves a federal preemption challenge to a Florida statute requiring presuit actions by an individual plaintiff before he may bring a medical negligence claim in Florida state court. The district court held that one of those presuit requirements in Florida Statute § 766.1065 — that the plaintiff execute a written authorization form for release of protected health information — is preempted by a federal statute...
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