While the medical profession generally is not a closely regulated industry for the purpose of determining the legitimate expectation of privacy of its members, pain management clinics might be a different case. Grant of qualified immunity upheld, as the scope of legitimate targets of administrative subpoenas was not clearly defined at the time.
Search not pretextual, as it was not conducted entirely to uncover criminality.
Court appropriately prudentially declined to hear application to stay state medical board's investigation, which can be considered a judicial proceeding.
Supervisor who acted according to the usual practices of the department was not deliberately indifferent to the potential harms of subdelegation.
Concur dubitante: @justicewillett -- QI problematic.
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/17/17-50518%20-CV0.pdf
Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice. Quick work.