Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Motion To Intervene in Florida Medical Association V. HEW

January 25, 2011 Dow Jones, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, filed the lawsuit to lift an injunction on public access to the file imposed in 1979 by a judge who ruled that disclosing information in the file would violate the 1974 Privacy Act. That 1979 ruling came in a lawsuit the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Florida Medical Association filed to prevent the federal government from publishing a list of annual Medicare reimbursements. The AMA has continued to oppose lifting the ban. In a recent ruling, Judge Marcia Morales Howard of the U.S. District Court for . . .