Confidentially speaking, Judge Holmes knows his way around. Today, he grapples with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the “onlie begetter” of so many eye-glazing CLEs, in Continuing Life Communities Thousand Oaks LLC, Spieker CLC, LLC,  Tax Matters Partner, Docket No. 4806-15, filed 12/6/16.

The Thousand Oakies are afeared that IRS wants confidential health info.

Judge Holmes, the King of the Phonathon, gets the Thousand Oakies and IRS on the hoot-‘n’-holler, and they hammer out a Rule 103 spectacular, with marking of confidential stuff, a 45-day clawback, list of permitted eyeballers, challenge procedures, and a whole lot more, complete with citations to relevant statutes and regs.

Practitioners representing the disciples of Asclepius should get this language in their forms files.