As Dr. Caitlin Bernard weighs a legal challenge to the ruling that she violated the privacy of a young rape victim, experts say the case could be among the first of its kind to land in an Indiana state court.
“This is not a normal case,” Deputy Attorney General Carah Rochester said at the May 25 hearing. “And I don’t believe that in the past 10 years, there have been any medical licensing board cases that are analogous to the facts before the board today.”