Legal Opinion
William B. Chapman v. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 16, 1984No. 84-2058PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Per curiam
We are the second panel of this court to hear an appeal by William B. Chapman challenging his discharge from employment with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in August of 1977. In a prior opinion, 682 F.2d 526 (5th Cir.1982), this court reversed the district court’s holding that a supervisor’s handwritten memoranda were not “records” within the meaning of the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a. In this appeal Chapman asks us to hold that the “law of the case” doctrine required the district court on remand to award him damages and precluded it from holding further…
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