"This is a tremendous vindication of the constitutional
rights of my clients, all loyal, hardworking scientists who have
dedicated their lives to the space program."
Source: Dan Stormer, attorney for 28 Jet
Propulsion Laboratory workers who filed a lawsuit against the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the California
Institute of Technology last August, challenging the new background
checks instituted after 9/11. Calling such investigation into the
backgrounds of NASA scientists and engineers a "broad inquisition,"
on Friday the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco,
CA ruled the Bush Administration has no right to conduct such
checks.
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