John Doe v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al.
1. Does judicial application of the "single publication rule" to all claims arising under the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a et seq., deprive private citizens such as petitioner of their statutory right to bring an otherwise timely action for relief under that Act, where the cognizable injury that is the basis for the action does not ripen until a significant period of time after initial publication and only once the published material is no longer "relevant" and "timely" within the meaning of that Act.
2. Is the constitutional right to "informational privacy" implicated by the federal government's perpetual maintenance on publicly available websites of press releases concerning federal criminal proceedings concluded numerous years-ago?
Does the single publication rule deprive citizens of their statutory right to timely Privacy Act relief?