Legal Opinion
Binion v. United States Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 6, 1983No. 82-5316PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
The Department of Justice appeals from an order mandating the disclosure of materials, requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, and the Privacy Act, id. § 552a, about plaintiff's application for a presidential pardon.
This appeal presents us with two issues of first impression:(1) Does the Privacy Act exemption for a criminal law enforcement agency’s system of specified records cover the Pardon Attorney’s deliberative documents created after completion of the pardon applicant’s sentence?(2) Does the FOIA exemption for “investigatory…
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