Martinez, Robert v. Bureau of Prisons

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• holding that the Act “authorizes] suit against an ‘agency’” and affirming dismissal of Privacy Act claims against’ individuals because individuals are not federal agencies
• concluding that “the district court properly dismissed the named individual defendants because no cause of action exists that would entitle appellant to relief from them under the Privacy Act or FOIA”
• concluding that \the district court properly dismissed the named individual defendants because no cause of action exists that would entitle appellant to relief from them under the Privacy Act or FOIA\
• noting that Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act \concern the obligations of agencies as distinct from individual employees of those agencies\
• noting that Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act “concern the obligations of agen- cies as distinct from individual employees of those agencies”
• affirming that the Inmate Central Records System is exempt from the Privacy Act provisions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).