Supreme Court: FAA vs. Cooper Damages
Will the U.S. Privacy Act of 1974 lose its effectiveness?
The formal question:
The formal question presented to the Supreme Court will be: “Whether a plaintiff can establish actual damages under the Privacy Act’s civil remedies provision, 5 USC ss552a(g)(1)©-(D) and (g)(4), through competent evidence of real and appreciable mental and emotional distress caused by a federal agency’s intentional or willful violation of the Act.” We shall find out next year.
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