UNITED STATES of America v. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Appellant

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• holding that an individual's privacy interest is not absolute and, therefore, can be curtailed by some governmental interests
• holding that the “strong public interest in facilitating the research and investigations of NIOSH [National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health] justify [the] minimal intrusion into the privacy which surrounds the employees’ medical records.”
• holding that an employer has standing to assert its employees’ privacy interests where the subpoena issued by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health sought discovery of the employees’ medical records
• observing that “[p]rivacy . . . is control over knowledge about oneself” (citation omitted)
• finding that private medical information is “well within the ambit of materials entitled to privacy protection” partly because it concerns intimate facts of a personal nature
• observing that “[pjrivacy ... is control over knowledge about oneself’ (citation omitted)

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