Privacy Right in Juvenile Records Not 'Clearly Established'
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said yesterday that its 2003 opinion in a case was “opaque” and did not render it “clearly established” that peeking at Juvenile Court records without court permission is a constitutional violation. A majority of the three-judge label rendering yesterday’s decision called for an en banc reconsideration of the 2003 decision in Gonzalez v. Spencer. Yesterday’s per curium opinion was signed by Circuit Judges Richard C. Tallman and Danielle J. Hunsaker, as well as District Court Judge Roslyn O. Silver of the District of Arizona, sitting b...