Court declines Limbaugh appeal
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday declined to review a lower court’s ruling that radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s right to medical privacy was not violated in an investigation into possible misuse of prescription painkillers.
The court gave no reason for its decision not to hear the case.
Limbaugh’s lawyers had asked the court to overturn a ruling last year by Florida’s 4th District Court of Appeals that said Palm Beach County prosecutors acted legally when they seized Limbaugh’s medical records in 2003.
The prosecutors were investigating whether Limbaugh went from doctor to doctor to obtain multiple prescriptions for controlled drugs, a felony known as “doctor shopping.”
The records have remained sealed and the case is on hold while Limbaugh appeals. He has not been charged with a crime.
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