Legal Opinion
Thomas W. Hill v. U.S. Air Force
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 18, 1986No. 85-5805PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion per curiam.
2Per curiam
Appellant Thomas Hill, a civilian employee of the United States Air Force when this case began, alleges that the Air Force and certain of his supervisors at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico violated the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a (1982), by maintaining an illegal system of records, and violated the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1982), by wrongfully withholding agency documents. The District Court held that the records sought by Hill were not “agency records” within the meaning of FOIA. Alternatively, it held that Hill’s FOIA claims…
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