Poor Dr. Needles/No Privacy for Victims (I mean patients)

This week, lawyers for Endoscopy Center victims [whoops . . . I meant patients] asked Judge Earl to limit the ability for Dr. "Needles" Desai [pictured right] and Eladio Carrera to send their money overseas or otherwise hide it from plaintiffs in the medical malpractice suit. Plaintiff's lawyers don't think insurance will cover damages and asked the court for an injunction on large spending by doctors.

The Reno Gazette-Journal reports:

In issuing the rare preliminary injunction, Earl declared the case extraordinary and said he believed extraordinary measures were warranted. He instructed Desai and Carrera to get approval from the court for any financial transactions of $50,000 or more.

Earl also threatened “sterner measures” if Desai and Carrera move assets using multiple transactions under $50,000. He set an Aug. 26 court date to consider extending the order. . . .

Desai’s lawyer, Dominique Pollara [of Scheuring Zimmerman Scully Tweedy & Doyle] called the concerns “absolutely baseless.” She said the preliminary injunction issued Tuesday infringed on the physicians’ due process rights to use their money.

Desai and Carrera are the majority owners of the clinic, which was closed after county health officials found several patients contracted hepatitis C through what authorities said were unsafe injection practices.

[Uh . . . "absolutely baseless," Ms. Pollara? Wasn't it just last week that Dr. Needles tried to ship his Mercedes Benzes to India? I know, I know, Ms. Pollara is just defending her villain of a client from media attacks and jury pollution, but "baseless" is a little over the top.]

Meanwhile, the Las Vegas Sun reports:

Lawyers for the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada and its chief operator, Dr. Dipak Desai, came to court armed with a 27-page questionnaire that they wanted all of the infected plaintiffs to fill out before proceeding further with their legal claims.

The questionnaire touched on a variety of personal subjects, including the medical history of the plaintiffs, whether they have ever injected heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine and how many sexual partners and what kind of sex they have had throughout their lives.

Awesome. Sorry we gave you Hep-C, now tell us everything about your sex life and forfeit your privacy. Litigation is a wonderful process.