Judge Rejects State's Demand for All of Rush Limbaugh's Medical Records

Judge Rejects State's Demand for All of Rush Limbaugh's Medical Records

MIAMI, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh's attorney, issued the following statement regarding the decision today by Judge Thomas Barkdull III to review the medical records seized from Mr. Limbaugh's doctors and return any records not relevant to the investigation.

We are pleased that Judge Barkdull has agreed with our position that the
State was not entitled to the wholesale seizure of Mr. Limbaugh's medical
records. We are finally getting the judicial review of the records for
relevancy that we have sought from the start.

This is also a positive result for all medical patients in Florida
because it affirms our argument that the police cannot go on a fishing
expedition through anyone's most private medical matters. At the very
least, there will be a judge between the police and the medical records.

We are also pleased with the Judge's order that any notes the prosecutors
made during their brief review of the records in December 2003 will be
held securely by the Clerk of the Court until further order of the Court.

We continue to believe that the search warrants were issued based on
faulty and misleading statements from investigators and that the search
was improper under both state and federal law. Nothing in Judge
Barkdull's order prevents us from renewing our motion to suppress all of
the records at a later date.

Source: Roy Black

CONTACT: Tony Knight or Tammy Taylor, both Sitrick And Company for Roy
Black, +1-310-788-2850

Web site: http://www.sitrick.com/

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