Legal Opinion
Tijerina v. Walters
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 30, 1987No. Nos. 85-6240, 85-6241PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MIKVA, Circuit Judge:
These actions under the Privacy Act, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and the United States Constitution grow out of a July 1982 incident in which a Deputy Inspector General of the Veterans Administration (VA) wrote an unsolicited letter to the Texas Bar Examiners detailing allegations that one of the appellants had falsified information submitted in support of a loan application. The Examiners later wrote back to request additional details, which the VA also provided. As a result of the disclosures, appellant Lorenzo Tijerina eventually was found morally unfit to…
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