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· 5/17/1996

Wanda Henke v. United States Department of Commerce and National Science Foundation

Citations

  • 83 F.3d 1453
  • 317 U.S. App. D.C. 405
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 11410
  • 1996 WL 256616

How courts have described this case

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

  • observing that \the determination that a system of records exists triggers virtually all of the other substantive provisions of the Privacy Act\
  • observing that “the determination that a system of records exists triggers virtually all of the 12 other substantive provisions of the Privacy Act”
  • expressing concern that if retrieval capability creates a system of records, an agency may be “found retrospectively to be maintaining a system of records it did not even know existed, simply by dint of a potential use it neither engaged in nor contemplated”
  • “[A] group of records should generally not be considered a system of records unless there is actual retrieval of records keyed to individuals.”
  • “the determination that a system of records exists triggers virtually all of the other substantive provisions of the Privacy Act”
  • “[A] group of records should generally not be considered a system of records unless there is actual retrieval of records keyed to individuals.”

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Judges: Wald, Ginsburg, Henderson

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