Radack v. United States Department of Justice

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• holding that Privacy Act does not preclude APA claim where plaintiff sought different relief than the Act could provide and where the “APA claim center[ed] on [agency’s] violation of its own internal policies,” rather than improper disclosure made unlawful under the Act
• finding that the government had satisfied the compatibility requirement of the routine use exception where the government’s disclosure of information comported with the reasons stated in the Federal Register for the compilation of the records
• rejecting adequacy of only monetary damages with no form of equitable relief
• “The government must ... demonstrate both ‘compatibility’ and publication in the Federal Register in order to successfully invoke the routine use exception.”
• “The government must ... demonstrate both ‘compatibility’ and publication in the Federal Register in order to successfully invoke the routine use exception.”
• “In order to ensure that people are aware of the purpose for which their information might be disclosed, agencies are required to publish each routine use in the Federal Register.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).