LOS ANGELES – A federal appeals court has refused to toss out charges that a former researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles Health System illegally obtained medical records of patients, including celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Hanks.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on May 10 rejected arguments by Huping Zhou that the charges brought against him under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) should have been dismissed because he didn’t know what he was doing was illegal. The court said that he didn’t need to know his actions were illegal to be in violation of the law.
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