A number of Florida nursing homes refused requests from family members of deceased patients to disclose the deceased patients' medical records. The family members then filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which enforces HIPAA. The OCR found that the nursing homes' actions were consistent with HIPAA. However, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) issued citations to the nursing homes for violation of the Florida law. The nursing homes challenged AHCA's action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, and that court sided with the nursing homes and granted summary judgment to block AHCA's enforcement of the Florida medical record disclosure law. On appeal, AHCA argued that the Florida law merely supplemented and did not conflict with HIPAA. Specifically, AHCA argued that the Florida law served as a definition of the term "personal representative," as used in HIPAA.