Edward J. Petrus, M.D. v. Otis R. Bowen, M.D., Secretary of Health & Human Services, Defendants

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1987-12-11

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ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge: Neither the Freedom of Information Act nor the Privacy Act creates a cause of action for a suit against an individual employee of a federal agency. Because this suit, which invokes both Acts, was filed only against individual officers of the agencies whose records are sought and does not name the agenc…

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