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DOE v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF U.S.

Nos. 89-15933, 89-16134.

941 F.2d 780 (1991)

John DOE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF the UNITED STATES; the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Richard Held, Special Agent in Charge of the San Francisco Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 1, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew A. Coles, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern Cal., Jo Anne Frankfurt, Employment Law Center, Christopher Byers, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Deborah Ruth Kant, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Catherine I. Hanson and Alice P. Mead, for amicus curiae of the California Medical Ass'n.

Before CHOY and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and FITZGERALD, District Judge.

FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

John Doe appeals district court judgments (1) holding that there is no private cause of action against the United States under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, (2) holding that the defendants did not violate Doe's right to privacy, and, (3) granting an individual defendant qualified immunity. On appeal, the case presents issues of mootness, jurisdiction, sovereign immunity, and qualified immunity.

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