Patton v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NEALON, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff, Robert T. Patton, Jr., after having been rejected for employment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), on July 2, 1982, requested access to the file maintained by the FBI concerning his application. On November 24, 1982, the FBI released eighty-one pages of material in response to plaintiffs request but withheld approximately ten pages contending they were exempt from release under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552 and the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a. Plaintiff filed this action on April 9, 1984,…