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December 15, 2020
On Friday, in the Southern District of New York, Judge Victor Marrero ruled that a federal law mandating that the Department of Health and Human Services issue data on biosurveillance efforts to gather data imperative to monitor, prepare, and plan for pandemics or epidemics by 2023 failed to provide grounds for a private organization to receive a certain type of information about the COVID-19 pandemic via request for a writ of mandamus or a preliminary injunction.
Two organizational plaintiffs a charter school and nonprofit “address(ing) homelessness (and) HIV/AIDS” sued the federal government, arguing that the law required the defendant to immediately release data showing the government’s preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic including the current supply of related medical supplies and blood, accurate information on pandemic deaths, spread by city or town, and tests conducted per state. The plaintiffs argued that without