Mark A. Pendergraft v. David P. Steiner, Postmaster General

Summary

The United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma denied without prejudice Plaintiff Mark A. Pendergraft’s motion for a blanket Privacy Act order authorizing disclosure of specified United States Postal Service records. The court found the request premature and insufficiently specific, and directed the parties to meet and confer before any renewed request concerning specified documents or information.

Holdings

1. A broad, unspecified request for a Privacy Act order is insufficiently specific and premature, and therefore should be denied.
2. The denial is without prejudice, and either party may request a Privacy Act order for specified documents and information as discovery progresses.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the court should enter a blanket Privacy Act order authorizing disclosure of the broad categories of USPS records identified in Plaintiff's motion.
2. Whether Plaintiff's request was sufficiently specific and ripe for consideration before discovery had been served and the parties had identified particular documents and privacy interests.

Disposition

other