United States Ninth Circuit

In an action brought by scientists, engineers, and administrative support personnel at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) challenging NASA's recently adopted requirement that "low risk" contract employees like themselves submit to in-depth background investigations, denial of plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction is reversed and remanded where they raised serious questions as to the merits of their informational privacy and APA claims, and the balance of hardships tipped sharply in their favor.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2007
• Decided 01/11/2008
• Published 01/11/2008

Judges

• Before: DAVID R. THOMPSON and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges, and EDWARD C. REED, JR., District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dan Stormer and Virginia Keeny, Law Offices of Hadsell & Stormer, Inc., Pasadena, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark B. Stern and Dana Martin, U.S. Department of Justice, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Washington, D.C., and Mark Holscher, R. Alexander Pilmer, and Mark T. Cramer, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.