DOE v. CHAO

No. 05-1068.

435 F.3d 492 (2006)

Buck DOE, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Robert Doe; Tays Doe; Otis Doe; Thomas Doe; Joe Doe; Charles Doe; Dick Doe, Plaintiffs, v. Elaine L. CHAO, Secretary of Labor, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: January 24, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Anthony Alan Yang, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Appellant. Terry Gene Kilgore, Wolfe, Williams & Rutherford, Norton, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, John L. Brownlee, United States Attorney, Michael Jay Singer, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellant. Joseph E. Wolfe, Bobby Steve Belcher, Wolfe, Williams & Rutherford, Norton, Virginia, for Appellee.

Before LUTTIG, WILLIAMS, and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges.


Affirmed in part; vacated and remanded in part by published opinion. Judge WILLIAMS wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge LUTTIG joined. Judge MICHAEL wrote a dissenting opinion.

OPINION

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

In 1997, appellee, Buck Doe, brought an action against appellant, the United States Secretary of Labor (the Government), seeking damages under the Privacy Act for the wrongful disclosure of his Social Security number. We previously held...

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