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THURSTON v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 85-2066(L), 85-2067.

810 F.2d 438 (1987)

Elizabeth Hall THURSTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee. Elizabeth H. THURSTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, Appellee, and William Bolger, Postmaster of the United States; J.P. Saunders; C.L. Fallis; Paul N. Carlin, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 2, 1987.

Rehearing Denied March 30, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet H. Thurston (Cohen & Thurston; Charles R. Allen, Jr., on brief), for appellant.

R. Andrew German, Law Dept., U.S. Postal Service (Charles D. Hawley, Asst. Gen. Counsel; Michael T. Tidwell, on brief), for appellee.

Before HALL, Circuit Judge, BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge, and McMILLAN, District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

McMILLAN, District Judge:

Appellant, Elizabeth Hall Thurston, applied for and was denied a job as part time postmaster in Oriskany, Virginia. Thurston filed a privacy act petition pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552a(g)(1) seeking access to the records the Postal Service made concerning her application for the job. She later filed a "constitutional tort" action against individual Postal Service officials alleging that they denied her the job in violation of her First...

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