Parks v. United States Internal Revenue Service

WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.

The basic question in this case is whether the plaintiffs, who are employees of the ■ Internal Revenue Service, can maintain a civil action growing out of the use by the Wichita office of the Internal Revenue Service of personnel files of employees who had not pledged to purchase government bonds, whereby these employees were pinpointed for a telephone campaign making use of a list of such “recalcitrants,” and, if so, what the nature of the remedy is. The case is one of first impression. The trial court ruled that no remedy existed under 'che_ Privacy Act of…