Legal Opinion
Rosenfeld v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 12, 1988No. 87-2975PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
The United States appeals a district court award of interim attorney’s fees to Rosen-feld, plaintiff-appellee, in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation. We dismiss the appeal and deny the Government’s petition for a writ of mandamus.
BACKGROUND AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW
Seth Rosenfeld, a journalist, seeks disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, of FBI documents relating to FBI activities on the University of California-Berkeley campus in the 1960s for use in connection with a book he is writing. Between 1981 and 1982 Rosenfeld filed the nine…
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