A federal judge in Atlanta has for the second time tossed out a suit accusing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of violating the privacy of an Atlanta attorney-and sparking an international firestorm of media coverage-by publicly identifying him as having a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis.
U.S. District Judge William S. Duffey Jr. on Wednesday granted the CDC’s motion for summary judgment, finding in a 60-page order that Atlanta attorney Andrew H. Speaker offered no direct evidence that any CDC official had disclosed Speaker’s identity to the public and the news media prior to the May 31, 2007 publication of an Associated Press news story citing anonymous sources who identified Speaker by name.
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