For Robert Nelson, a planetary scientist who led the science team for NASA's Deep Space 1 flyby of Comet Borelly in 2001, the happiest day of the past three years came when a respected civil-rights law firm agreed to take on his lawsuit against the US space agency.rnThis week, Nelson v. NASA reaches the US Supreme Court, which will have to decide whether to uphold a lower courts preliminary injunction halting extensive investigations into the personal lives of employees at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. The case may have far-reaching implications for the privacy rights of scientists receiving US government funds.
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