Challenge to NASA Background Check

In NASA v. Nelson, No. 09-530, an action claiming that NASA’s National Agency Check with Inquiries background check process violated a constitutional right to informational privacy, the court reversed the Ninth Circuit’s reversal of the district court’s denial of a preliminary injunction where, assuming, without deciding, that the government’s challenged inquiries implicated a privacy interest of constitutional significance, that interest, whatever its scope, did not prevent the government from asking reasonable questions of the sort included on the forms at issue in an employment background investigation that was subject to the Privacy Act’s safeguards against public disclosure.

 

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  • Read the Supreme Court’s Decision in NASA v. Nelson, No. 09-530

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