privacy-act
21 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-654 | Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Denied | Response Waived | agency-document circuit-split court-order judicial-interpretation privacy-act procedural-error | 1) Did 3rd Circuit Court err by blatantly accepting District Court 's erroneous interpretation on a County Prothonotary-signed court order, not sig… |
| 24-751 | Giorgi Rtskhiladze v. Department of Justice, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-procedure circuit-court damages-claim footnote-defamation forfeiture privacy-act | After deciding that the salacious Footnote 112 in the Mueller Report defamed Petitioner and remanding his equitable claim, the circuit court held that… |
| 23-1362 | Robert Kreb v. Integra Aviation, L.L.C., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act appointments-clause article-iii due-process freedom-of-information-act privacy-act sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction whistleblower-protection | Is it appropriate for courts to contend with this Court or Congress established law through sua sponte invocation of affirmative defenses and dismiss … |
| 22-7394 | Mike Webb v. Department of the Army, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law administrative-remedies agency-discretion agency-response civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment foia foia-request privacy-act pro-se-litigation standing | I. Whether, given "the accepted rule that a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the pla… |
| 22-881 | Martin J. Zielinski v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-14 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing judicial-misconduct privacy-act section-1985 | DID THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JUDGES VIOLATE THE PETITIONERS DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW RIGH… |
| 22-5393 | Seth Mitchell v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-rights document-withholding due-process freedom-of-information-act government-transparency governmental-agencies privacy-act | 1. "When, if ever, can United States Governmental agencies (United States Department of Veterans Affairs, United States Department of Defense) intenti… |
| 21-1415 | John Doe v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-04 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-right-to-informational-privacy constitutional-rights freedom-of-information-act government-records informational-privacy privacy-act relevance single-publication-rule statute-of-limitations timeliness | 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 ci… |
| 21-1289 | Foster Taft v. Ventura County Medical Center, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-regulation hipaa hipaa-privacy privacy privacy-act private-cause-of-action private-right-of-action state-actor | 1. Does 42 U.S.C. §1983 confer a private cause of action for privacy violations of HIPAA, in particular 164.502(a)? Within this issue, the court woul… |
| 21-6783 | Broderick J. Warfield v. Department of the Air Force, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-retaliation federal-tort national-origin privacy privacy-act race-discrimination retaliation | Breached contract of employment violated by defendant PeopleReady, Trueblue "2" National, and "1 Local Background Information reported to Command Acti… |
| 21-430 | Luke T. West v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2021-09-21 | Denied | Response Waived | collateral-estoppel court-martial due-process federal-claims first-amendment judicial-review military-justice privacy-act statutory-construction united-states-constitution | 1) As a matter of statutory construction and application, is petitioner entitled to the exercise of the authority of the United States Federal Court o… |
| 21-291 | Barbara Silva v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-tort-claims-act personal-information privacy-act privacy-act-1974 social-security-number sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1) Under Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C § 552a. (2)(c)(d),(6), (9), (10). a) Is the Agency required to maintain accurate information on each… |
| 21-266 | Robert S. Carlborg v. Department of the Navy | District of Columbia | 2021-08-24 | Denied | agency-exemption authored-material first-party-request government-records personal-identifier privacy-act record-access unrestricted-access | Barring a general or specific exemption for a SOR claimed by an agency, does an individual making a first party request for his own record retrieved b… | |
| 21-72 | Khalid M. Turaani v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-20 | Denied | Response Waived | adverse-effect constitutional-rights government-disclosure privacy-act reputation second-amendment sixth-circuit-review standing standing-doctrine traceability | Whether the standing analysis for Privacy Act improper disclosure claims requires determining if the plaintiff sufficiently alleged an "adverse effect… |
| 20-931 | Wynship W. Hillier v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. | District of Columbia | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-procedure agency-declaration agency-records civil-rights classified-records judicial-review privacy-act summary-judgment terrorism | 1. Shall summary judgment be awarded in favor of an agency in a suit under the Privacy Act to compel notice of the fact of the existence of records pe… |
| 19-6434 | Lawrence T. Tyler v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act adverse-determination agency bureau-of-prisons civil-rights due-process human-trafficking national-origin-discrimination privacy-act record-accuracy standing | 1, Whether the challenged records used to make an adverse determination against me are indeed inaccurate and/or incomplete as a matter of this U.S. Su… |
| 19-5454 | Melinda Scott v. Andrew Carlson, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech information-disclosure online-publication privacy privacy-act standing state-action state-actor | (1) Are private citizens, who take over functions normally left to the state, by publishing information, on the Internet, about others from (a) courts… |
| 18-9172 | Wendy Darlene Pitts v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conflicting-information disaster-assistance due-process fema jurisdiction plea-bargain privacy privacy-act special-needs standing | 1. Did Femd error in releasing funds without due process of the Privacy Act law on Femmd Form 009-0-3? 2. Did Femd error thinking Defendant's home wa… |
| 18-426 | Anica Ashbourne v. Donna Hansberry, et al. | District of Columbia | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law agency-procedure arnett-v-kennedy codd-v-velger due-process evidence meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard notice notice-of-termination personnel-records privacy-act privacy-act-5-usc-552a-e-5 third-party-verification | The Privacy Act requires an agency to verify the accuracy of its information against the factual records of independent and objective third parties. 5… |
| 18-413 | David R. Bosch v. Arizona Department of Revenue | Arizona | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 26-usc-6103 26-usc-6103(d) administrative-procedure agreement-on-coordination-of-tax-administration due-process federal-authority federal-law information-sharing non-federal-agency privacy-act recipient-agency state-tax statutory-interpretation tax-administration | May a, "non-federal," / "recipient agency," (as defined in the Privacy Act of 1974) purport to act under authority of 26 U.S.C. § 6103(d) pursuant to … |
| 18-6109 | Keerut Singh v. United States Postal Service | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process foia foia-request judicial-procedure privacy-act pro-se-litigant standard-of-review summary-judgment | Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to comply with its own precedents under 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 and 552a thus resulting in a severe departure from the typica… |
| 18-5250 | Vincent Michael Marino v. Department of Justice, et al. | District of Columbia | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-secrecy civil-rights document-disclosure due-process foia FOIA-access foia-exemptions foia-privacy-act Inadequate-search privacy-act Privacy-Act-amendment public-records Reimbursement-of-FOIA-fees search-fee statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation | Ground One The District Court, Appeals Court for the Districtof Columbia Circuit committed reversible legal error, by improperly categorizing and misa… |