Legal Opinion
Gordon v. Softech International, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 31, 2013No. Docket 12-661-cvPublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge JACOBS concurs in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion.
CHIN, Circuit Judge:
In 1994, Congress enacted the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (the “DPPA”). As its name suggests, the DPPA, with limited exceptions, protects drivers’ privacy by prohibiting state motor vehicle departments and others from disclosing “personal information” drawn from motor vehicle records.
In this case, defendant Aron Leifer, a private citizen, engaged in a verbal altercation with the driver of a motor vehicle. Miffed, he wrote down the license plate number of the car. Using an online private…
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