GARRIS v. F.B.I

No. 18-15416.

937 F.3d 1284 (2019)

Eric Anthony GARRIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 11, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vasudha Talla (argued), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc., San Francisco, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lewis S. Yelin (argued) and Michael S. Raab , Appellate Staff; Alex G. Tse , United States Attorney; United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C.; for Defendant-Appellee.

Adam Gershenson , Cooley LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; David Houska and Maxwell Alderman , Cooley LLP, San Francisco, California; for Amicus Curiae First Amendment Coalition.

Aiden Synnott , Luke X. Flynn-Fitzsimmons , William E. Freeland , and Melina M. Memeguin Layerenza , Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, New York, for Amici Curiae Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, Center for Constitutional Rights, Color of Change.

Aaron Mackey , Camille Fischer , and Adam Schwartz , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Before: A. Wallace Tashima, William A. Fletcher, and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Plaintiff-Appellant Eric Anthony Garris appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") in an action under the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a. Garris discovered that he and the website Antiwar.com...

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