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Actual Damages Required to Maintain Suit Under Federal Privacy Act
Loaded on June 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2004, page 26
Actual Damages Required to Maintain Suit Under Federal Privacy Act
The United States Supreme Court recently held that a showing of actual damages is required in order to maintain a civil action brought under the Privacy Act of 1974. The Privacy Act regulates the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of ...
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