NATIONAL AERO. AND SPACE ADMIN. v. NELSON

No. 09-530.

131 S.Ct. 746 (2011)

562 U.S. 134

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, et al., Petitioners, v. Robert M. NELSON, et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 19, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neal K. Katyal , Acting Solicitor General, Washington, Dc, for Petitioners.

Dan Stormer , Pasadena, CA, for respondents.

Neal Kumar Katyal , Acting Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for petitioners.

Paul R.Q. Wolfson , Shirley Cassin Woodward , Shivaprasad Nagaraj , Anna Melamud , Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, Dan Stormer , Counsel of Record, Virginia Keeny, Hadsell, Stormer, Keeny, Richardson & Renick, LLP, Pasadena, CA, for respondents.


Justice ALITO, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In two cases decided more than 30 years ago, this Court referred broadly to a constitutional privacy "interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters." Whalen v. Roe, 429 U.S. 589, 599-600, 97 S.Ct. 869, 51 L.Ed.2d 64 (1977); Nixon v. Administrator of General Services, 433 U.S. 425, 457, 97 S.Ct. 2777, 53 L.Ed.2d 867 (1977). Respondents...

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