I don’t think it was an accidental request for paperwork.
“... plaintiffs must prove government’s conduct was intentional and willful. 5 U.S.C. 552a(g)(4), [et.al]. Government is not liable for every affirmative or negligent act that technically violates the Privacy Act, “[i]stead, the violation must be so ‘patently egregious and unlawful that anyone undertaking the conduct should have known it ‘unlawful’.”
- Chief Judge Royce Lamberth
USDC District of Columbia
Mar. 9, 2010