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background check imposed as a condition of their continued employment at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (“JPL”). Caltech itself objected to the new requirement as “inappropriate.” Reversing the district court’s denial of the preliminary injunc- tion, we concluded that, as to the constitutional right of pri- vacy claim,4 “serious questions going to the merits were raised and the balance of harms tips sharply in [the plaintiff- class’s] favor,” Walczak v. EPL Prolong, Inc., 198 F.3d 725, 731 (9th Cir. 1999),5 where the class faced the Hobson’s

JPL’s chief engineer for flight dynamics, the project system engineer for the Kepler Space Observatory, and a lead principal engineer on the Con- stellation Program. Their research and findings have been published widely in scientific, peer-reviewed journals, and they have received hun- dreds of prestigious awards from NASA and the research community. The success of their scientific mission, which has been operating since 1958 without the new background checks, is renowned. 3 Low risk employment positions do not involve policymaking, major program responsibility, public safety, duties demanding a significant degree of public trust, or access to…