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OREKOYA v. MOONEY

No. 02-1306.

330 F.3d 1 (2003)

Sunday Dixon OREKOYA, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. James MOONEY; United States Secret Service, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 15, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon M. Jones, III with whom Robert P. Sherman, Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar, John Reinstein, and ACLU of Massachusetts were on brief, for appellant.

Barbara Healy Smith, Assistant U.S. Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellees.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Sunday Dixon Orekoya is a black Nigerian national who brought suit asserting he was the victim of racial and national origin discrimination by an overzealous United States Secret Service agent who was investigating financial fraud crimes by Nigerian nationals. Orekoya asserted that this agent and another violated the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a (2000), in two instances. In 1989, Agent Melissa Walsh obtained and then released to...

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