Minnesota High Court Addresses Privilege Question, Won’t Overturn Search

( April 20, 2026, 2:56 PM EDT) -- ST. PAUL, Minn. — Resolving an appeal that involved several aspects of Minnesota’s physician-patient evidentiary privilege, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld admission of medical records and run sheets but on different grounds than the state court of appeals had, and several justices signed onto a concurrence opining that the lack of “procedural safeguards” in the decision “leaves patients with no mechanism for protecting their privileged materials before their disclosure to law enforcement.”...