2nd Circuit: Collection Of Traveler COVID Information Is Moot But Its Use Is Not

Mealey's (December 9, 2022, 4:00 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — In a case in which a New Jersey state resident challenged the state of New York’s authority to perform health screening for contact tracing purposes when the resident flew into an airport in New York after traveling abroad, a panel of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals dismissed the traveler’s appeal in part as moot but vacated a New York federal court’s judgment of dismissal with prejudice and remanded the case with instructions to enter a judgment of dismissal without prejudice, finding that the traveler’s request that the state not use the personal information collected in connection with a health screening was not moot and had failed only due to a lack of standing....