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COVERT v. HERRINGTON

No. C-86-730-JLQ.

667 F.Supp. 730 (1987)

Willard A. COVERT and Barbara Covert, husband and wife; Ramona Abbott, a single person; Ted Nichol and Yvonne Nichol, husband and wife; Jerome B. Lee and Jeannine Lee, husband and wife; Thomas G. Humphrey and Patty Humphrey, husband and wife; William P. Espinosa, Jr. and Janet Espinosa, husband and wife; Aldo Pineda and Bertha Pineda, husband and wife; Eldon Schlabach and Marlene Schlabach, husband and wife; Steven L. Bohan, a single person; Mark Studd, a single person; Larry Spurgin, a single person; Lawrence Bills and Iva Bills, husband and wife; and Earl Penor and Berneice Penor, husband and wife, Plaintiffs, v. John HERRINGTON, Secretary, Department of Energy, United States of America, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Washington.

As Amended September 15, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daryl D. Jonson, Richland, Wash., James E. Egan, Kennewick, Wash., for plaintiffs.

Robert S. Linnell, Asst. U.S. Atty., Yakima, Wash., for defendants.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

QUACKENBUSH, District Judge.

This is an action brought under the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, by 13 contract employees or "job shoppers" at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Plaintiffs claimed that unlawful disclosures of their personnel security files by the Department of Energy (DOE) to the DOE Inspector General (IG) and subsequently to the United States Department of Justice led to criminal prosecutions against...

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