Chang v. Department of the Navy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that plaintiffs assertion that it was “technically possible to retrieve the [records at issue] by searching for his name [was] insufficient to meet the requirement that he data was retrieved in such a manner”
• finding same in records of non-judicial punishment proceedings against a naval officer
• “An individual does have a privacy interest in keeping employment history, job performance evaluations and information as to disciplinary proceedings confidential.”
• “The . . . incident led to an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, two suits in admiralty . . . an internet website providing pictures of the damage and substantial media coverage.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).