Texas Asks Court to Bar Cities, Doctors From Privacy Rule Case

Texas urged a federal trial court to deny a motion by two US cities and a doctors’ professional association to join a lawsuit for purposes of defending a reproductive health-care privacy rule.

Columbus, Ohio; Madison, Wis.; and Doctors for America have no right to intervene in a case testing the new rule because they have no legally protectable interests in the health-care privacy regulatory system, the state told Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Tuesday. The proposed intervenors showed no more than a “generalized interest” in a program that regulates ...