Legal Opinion
Harllel B. Jones v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 17, 1994No. 92-3962PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff Harllel Jones was the founder and leader of a group called “Afro Set” or the “Black Nationalist Party for Self Defense” in Cleveland in the 1960s and 1970s. Almost twenty years ago, Jones filed requests pursuant to the “Freedom of Information Act” (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, seeking all documents pertaining to himself or Afro Set held by the defendant Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Secret Service. The FBI eventually located 2,936 responsive documents comprising 10,485 pages, primarily within four central FBI files and various corresponding…
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