Chung v. U.S. Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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• holding that equitable tolling applies when “the plaintiff despite all due diligence . . . is unable to obtain vital information bearing on the existence of his claim” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that a Privacy Act claim was “sufficiently, similar to a traditional tort claim for invasion of privacy to render the Irwin presumption applicable”
• finding that the language of the exception cuts against the Irwin presumption, but does not defeat it
• holding a plaintiff’s “failure to allege any specific act or misleading statement by the defendant is problematic” to a claim for estoppel
• affirming the dismissal of Bivens action based on leaks of private information by government officials because those claims were “encompassed within the remedial scheme of the Privacy Act”
• affirming dismissal of constitutional claims against DOJ officials as “encompassed within the remedial scheme of the Privacy Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).