California dentist and attorney Orly Taitz has filed a second civil lawsuit in federal court in Brownsville, alleging violations of the Freedom of Information Act.

Taitz filed the action Dec. 18 against Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen.

Taitz accuses Burwell of violating the FOIA regarding information she has been seeking in connection with the first lawsuit she filed July 14 against President Barack Obama, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Burwell and the U.S. Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector, accusing them of “trafficking illegal aliens.”

That lawsuit also is in Hanen’s court.

In the July 14 case, Taitz is asking Hanen to order that undocumented immigrants not be moved to other states, or in the alternative, that they be either deported or held in quarantine for two months because they spread epidemics of scabies, tuberculosis, measles, whooping cough, swine flu, dengue fever, the Ebola virus and lice.

She also says undocumented immigrants pose a threat to national security and safety. She is requesting a travel ban to African hot spots and is challenging Obama’s executive action on immigration. A ruling is pending.

In her second lawsuit, Taitz said she submitted a request on Nov. 2 for information to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is part of HHS, related to the ongoing case. She says the CDC acknowledged receiving the request for information on Nov. 3, and that under FOIA, the agency is required to provide the information within 20 days.

“Forty five days passed and no response was received,” Taitz’s lawsuit states.

She is requesting information that addresses the statute or authority under which individuals are quarantined or isolated, any quarantine orders issued for Ebola patients or people exposed to the virus, all quarantine orders related to tuberculosis that have been issued from 2012 to the present, the number of Ebola cases expected by January 2015, and any and all documents relating to quarantine for rabies.

Hanen has scheduled an initial conference for March 31.

eperez-trevino@valleystar.com