Legal Opinion
John G. Gowan v. United States Department of the Air Force
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 17, 1998No. 96-2134PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
Retired Air Force Major John Gowan appeals the district court’s judgment against him in this Privacy Act suit. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
Major John Gowan (“Major Gowan”) was an Air Force officer whose area of expertise was high-energy laser optical materials and technology. One of his duties was to keep current on technological improvements that may have military value. In 1982, Major Gowan reported to the Air Force a breakthrough improvement in the detection of structural flaws in materials — a method-known as electronic speckle pattern interferometry (“ESPI”) — which enabled…
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