WASHINGTON — In a case watched closely by privacy and whistleblower advocates, lawyers for an HIV-positive pilot and the federal government clashed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday over whether damages for mental and emotional distress can be recovered for violations of the Privacy Act.
The justices gave little hint of how they would rule in a classic statutory interpretation argument over the meaning of the words “actual damages” in the 1974 law.
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