The attorneys for Signature Pharmacy have requested a court hearing to defend patients against violations of due-process rights by the State of Florida. The State of Florida sent out letters to thousands of clients who have had prescriptions filled by Signature Pharmacy; they were notified that their prescription records had been seized by the State and subject to review by the Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution (”Signature Pharmacy sues prosecutors in ‘07 case,” October 12).

On another matter, attorneys for Signature also requested a hearing before Osceola Circuit Court Judge John Marshall Kest about the pharmacy’s clients. The state wants to examine prescriptions filled by Signature and sent letters to several thousand clients.

According to the motion filed, the state did not date the letters but told the clients they had 30 days to respond. Signature attorneys filed an objection, saying it violates the patients’ due-process rights.

The letters have alarmed many clients of Signature Pharmacy since private medical records seized from Signature Pharmacy have previously been “leaked” to the media by prosecutors in a concerted effort to smear and embarrass prominent individuals as part of a steroid witch-hunt

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