Supreme Court to Decide Important “Informational Privacy” Case


John Chatowski - Nixon Peabody LLP
June 25, 2010  

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The United States Supreme Court has stepped into the fray in a closely watched case involving the collection of personal information by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from “low risk” contract employees at the California Institute of Technology’s (Caltech) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Robert M. Nelson, et al., v. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, et al., Supreme Court Case No. 09-530. While the result of this case will directly impact the extent to which the government can collect background information from its employees and third-party contractors, a broad decision by the Supreme Court may impact other areas of the Court’s “privacy” jurisprudence.
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