FLRA v. U.S. DEPT. OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Nos. 272, 98, Docket 91-4049, 91-4067.

958 F.2d 503 (1992)

FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY, Petitioner-Cross-Respondent, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, Washington, D.C.; United States Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Newington, Connecticut, Respondents-Cross-Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 5, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra Wien Simon, Atty., Appellate Staff, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard M. Schaitman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for respondent-cross-petitioner.

Pamela P. Johnson, Atty., Federal Labor Relations Authority, Washington, D.C. (William E. Persina, Sol., William R. Tobey, Deputy Sol., Federal Labor Relations Authority, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for petitioner-cross-respondent.

Elaine Kaplan, Deputy Director of Litigation, National Treasury Employees Union, Washington, D.C. (Gregory O'Duden, Director of Litigation, National Treasury Employees Union, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for The Nat. Treasury Employees Union as amicus curiae.

Before CARDAMONE, WALKER and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

The instant litigation deals with individual privacy rights. It used to be thought that citizens had a right to pass through this world without their successes and failures or comings and goings being the subject of comment, discussion or publication. But the advent of the data computer bank has nearly swept away that long-held notion, has virtually stripped from the individual's grasp control of information concerning his or her person,...

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