On April 8, in a claim that arose out of the leakage of patients' private health information, a California district court prevented a national health care organization from accessing plaintiffs' computer systems as part of the discovery process. The health care organization sought this information to negate causation, intending to show that some plaintiffs' identities may have been compromised prior to the breach. However, the court disagreed and found "that the burden of providing access to each plaintiff's computer system greatly outweigh[ed] its likely benefit."
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