David M. Travis v. Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States, and United States of America

How courts have described this case

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• “No one thinks that the Privacy Act violates the first amendment. Well, maybe these plaintiffs do think this, but the position is untenable.”
• “There is no constitutional right to have access to particular government information, or to require openness from the bureaucracy.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Even if we were to put to one side the Supreme Court’s holding that claims under the guarantee clause are not justiciable when raised by private persons and perhaps even when raised by states, we would see little merit to the contention.” (internal citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).