Legal Opinion
Jacobs v. NATIONAL DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 10, 2008No. 07-40776PublishedCited by 203 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:
At issue in this appeal involving the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, is whether, as our court held in Johnson v. Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, 700 F.2d 971 (5th Cir.1983), the Privacy Act’s “actual damages” remedy includes emotional-distress damages. Consistent with our binding precedent, id., the district court ruled that it does. The National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) urges: the Supreme Court’s post -Johnson decisions, “holding that a court must strictly construe an ambiguous waiver [of sovereign immunity] in favor of…
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