Goff v. Hurst

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[l]oss of economic opportunity is pecuniary harm” under the Privacy Act where plaintiff was unnecessarily incarcerated and alleged that he would have sought employment if not detained
• holding plaintiff plausibly alleged agency willfully violated Privacy Act when he put agency on notice that the record of his citizenship status was inaccurate and could lead to adverse immigration enforcement against him, yet agency did not update its records
• negligent misrepresentation claim triggered FTCA’s intentional tort exception consistent with same finding in Omegbu and Deloria
• Under Illinois law, to state a claim for false imprisonment, plaintiff must allege that his personal liberty was unreasonably or unlawfully restrained against his will and that defendant caused or procured the restraint.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).