privacy-act

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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 Did Petitioner forfeit his Privacy Act damages claim where the damages issue was fully briefed and the decision finds no support in existing caselaw?
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 sua sponte dismiss actions for want of subject matter jurisdiction despite Congress' intent to allow enforcement of es…
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 Whether the failure of an agency to respond to a FOIA request violates due process
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 and appeals court judges violate the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights?
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 when-can-government-agencies-withhold-foia-documents
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 Does the single publication rule deprive citizens of their statutory right to timely Privacy Act relief?
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 Does 42 U.S.C. §1983 confer a private cause of action for privacy violations of HIPAA, in particular 164.502(a)?
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 Whether a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 fails in the absence of but-for causation
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 As a matter of statutory construction and application, is petitioner entitled to the exercise of the authority of the United States Federal Court of C…
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 Whether the Privacy Act of 1974 requires the government to maintain accurate information and not disclose protected personal information, and whether …
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 Does an individual making a first party request for his own record under the Privacy Act gain unrestricted access regardless of whether the requestor'…
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 Shall summary judgment be awarded in favor of an agency in a Privacy Act suit to compel notice of records existence based on agency declaration
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 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. Supre…
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 Are private citizens, who take over functions normally left to the state, by publishing information, on the Internet, about others from (a) courts not…
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 Did FEMA error in releasing funds without due process of the Privacy Act law on FEMA Form 009-0-37?
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 Whether the D.C. Circuit erred in its rulings on the Privacy Act's verification requirement and the due process right to a meaningful opportunity to b…
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 Whether a non-federal recipient agency can purport to act under 26 U.S.C. § 6103(d) and the Privacy Act while ignoring due process
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
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 Whether the district court and appeals court erred in improperly categorizing and misapplying FOIA/Privacy Act exemptions, failing to compel agency co…