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PILON v. U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

No. 95-5086.

73 F.3d 1111 (1996)

Roger PILON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 16, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew L. Myers, Washington, DC, argued the cause and filed the briefs, for appellant.

Alfred Mollin, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellee, with whom Frank W. Hunger, Assistant Attorney General, Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Attorney, Robert E. Kopp, Attorney, and Leonard Schaitman, Attorney, were on the brief. Jeffrey F. Axelrad, Attorney, entered an appearance.

Before: WALD, RANDOLPH and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

WALD, Circuit Judge:

This is a case about the meaning of "disclose," as that term is used in the Privacy Act of 1974. In particular, we consider under what circumstances Congress intended that "disclose" encompass the dissemination of a document to someone who is already familiar with it. The district court granted appellee Department of Justice summary judgment in this Privacy Act suit, reasoning that the agency's unauthorized...

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