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· 2/19/2002

Thomas Willan v. Columbia County

Citations

  • 280 F.3d 1160
  • 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 2519
  • 2002 WL 234236

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a query of an FBI database for conviction records was not a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment because records of conviction are public rather than private documents
  • holding that a query of an FBI database for conviction records was not a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment because records of conviction are public rather than private documents
  • noting that the constitutional privacy right protects against “the revelation of intensely private financial or medical information that [is] not a matter of public record”
  • noting that the constitutional privacy right protects against “the revelation of intensely private financial or medical information that [is] not a matter of public record”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Posner, Manion, Rovner

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