Bradford v. Asian Health Services

I. INTRODUCTION

23 Defendant Asian Health Services (“Defendant” or “AHS”) is a private, nonprofit entity and 24 provider of health services that has received some grant funding from the Health Resources and 25 Services Administration, an agency of the United States Department of Health & Human Services 26 (“HHS” or “the Department”). ECF No. 17 (Motion to Remand), at 7. Defendant must apply for 27 funding, and it is estimated that about 7% of its total funding from April 2022 through March 2023 was derived from federal award funding. Id. In May 2023, Defendant announced that it discovered a “data security incident” that had occurred in February 2023. Id. Suspicious activity in an employee’s email account led it to conduct an investigation with “third-party experts” through which it “determined that an unauthorized person” may have accessed an email account that contained at least one patient’s information. Id. at 7-8 (quoting an excerpt from a public website of Defendant’s https://asianhealthservices.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/AHS-Data-Release.pdf) (last visited Mar. 22, 2204). Plaintiff Ira Bradford is an individual that…