( December 4, 2025, 9:13 AM EST) -- LUBBOCK, Texas — A Texas federal judge granted a joint motion by Texas and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to voluntarily dismiss the state’s challenge of two privacy rules that supplemented the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which the parties filed after a similar lawsuit resulted in a ruling against the U.S. government and in the dismissal of an appeal of that ruling by third parties....