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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS BROWNSVILLE DIVISION Orly TAITZ, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) Civil Action No. 1:14-cv-00119 ) v. ) ) Jeh JOHNSON, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) ___________________________________ ) DEFENDANTS’ NOTICE TO THE COURT REGARDING IDENTIFICATION OF DR. TAITZ’S PATIENTS Case 1:14-cv-00119 Document 71 Filed in TXSD on 09/11/15 Page 1 of 4
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

BROWNSVILLE DIVISION

Orly TAITZ, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) Civil Action No. 1:14-cv-00119 ) v. ) ) Jeh JOHNSON, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) ___________________________________ )

DEFENDANTS’ NOTICE TO THE COURT REGARDING IDENTIFICATION OF DR. TAITZ’S PATIENTS

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NOTICE

On July 7, 2015, this Court ordered Dr. Taitz to provide “a list of the illegal

immigrant children she treated from June 6, 2014 to August 22, 2014” and include “the

name (or other identifier) of the patient, date of each treatment, and the reason for each

visit.” (ECF No. 70.) Dr. Taitz complied, and provided the Government a list

containing thirty-nine names.

Agencies within DHS and HHS attempted to locate any medical records for Dr.

Taitz’s patients, but were unsuccessful in identifying records for any of her patients

because Dr. Taitz did not provide a date of birth (or other identifier) along with the

names. (See Declarations, Contained in the Appendix to this Notice.) For example, the

name of one of Dr. Taitz’s patients is so common that DHS had records for at least 184

people with that name. In another instance where there was only one match, that person

came to the United States over 20 years ago and is not a child. Some names yielded no

exact matches.

Defendants attempted to resolve this issue via phone and email with Dr. Taitz,

asking her to provide, at minimum, dates of birth for her patients, which might have

narrowed the database searches and yielded more conclusive information. Ultimately,

undersigned counsel explained the problem to Dr. Taitz in a letter. (See letter from Colin

Kisor to Dr. Taitz dated September 1, 2015, contained in the Appendix to this Notice.)

Dr. Taitz has thus far not provided any amplifying information to her original list, and so

the Government’s diligent efforts to determine whether it has any medical records for her

patients have proven fruitless. The Government, consequently, has not turned over any

medical records to Dr. Taitz.

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Should this Court decide to issue a further Order to Dr. Taitz, to re-submit her

patient list to Defendants and include a date of birth (or other conclusive identifier) for

each patient, Defendants could re-run the various database searches in a further effort to

identify whether there are any medical records for any of Dr. Taitz’s patients in

Defendants’ possession.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Colin A. Kisor COLIN A. KISOR Deputy Director

District Court Section Office of Immigration Litigation Civil Division,

U.S. Department of Justice 450 Fifth Street NW Washington, DC 20001 Telephone: (202) 532-4331 Fax: (202) 305-7000 E-mail: [email protected] Counsel for Defendants

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, Colin Kisor, do hereby certify that on September 11, 2015, I electronically filed

the foregoing with the Clerk of the Court by using the CM/ECF system.

/s/ Colin A. Kisor COLIN A. KISOR Deputy Director

District Court Section Office of Immigration Litigation Civil Division,

U.S. Department of Justice 450 Fifth Street NW Washington, DC 20001 Telephone: (202) 532-4331 Fax: (202) 305-7000 E-mail: [email protected] Counsel for Defendants

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