Texas Health Contractor Proceeds on 4th Amendment, Access Claims

A group that contracted with a Texas agency to coordinate state-funded reproductive health services can move forward on claims that agency employees illegally accessed its cloud-based information, the Fifth Circuit said Wednesday.

Three Texas Health and Human Services Commission employees will face claims that they violated a state law that prohibits knowingly accessing a computer or computer system without the owner’s consent, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said. The employees weren’t entitled to official immunity because they didn’t show they were acting in good faith when they engaged the owner’s former employee to access the ...