About the only piece of evidence the prosecution didn’t have in the murder case against 20-year-old Patrick Fluker was an eyewitness testifying that he was seen shooting 29-year-old Tiffany Mendez in the head.FORT WAYNE – The Allen County commissioners are now defendants in a lawsuit filed by an abortion provider challenging new regulations for doctors who don’t live in the area and who do not have privileges at area hospitals.
Filed in May by Fort Wayne Women’s Health, operated by Dr. George Klopfer, the lawsuit originally named the Fort Wayne-Allen County health commissioner and the Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health.
But according to documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Fort Wayne, the Allen County commissioners should be the defendants. An amended complaint was filed Monday, naming the commissioners instead and removing health department officials.
County Attorney Bill Fishering said the change in the complaint does not change the defense team, which includes the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund.
The new ordinance requires out-of-town doctors to provide contact information to area emergency rooms and the local health department.
Klopfer and his attorneys have argued the ordinance would give health officials unlimited access to patient medical records, thus violating patients’ and physicians’ rights to privacy.
