Legal Opinion
Blanton v. United States Department of Justice
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 30, 1999No. Civ.A. 93-1789(PLF)PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, District Judge.
This case arises from a number of Freedom of Information Act requests made by Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr. to the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for records concerning himself and his father. The matter is before the Court on cross-motions for summary judgment and plaintiffs motion to compel a further search.
I. BACKGROUND
Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr., a resident of Birmingham, Alabama, was investigated in connection with the September 15, 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed…
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