Legal Opinion
Michael Alan Crooker v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 16, 1981No. 80-1278PublishedCited by 281 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARDS, Circuit Judge:
In Department of the Air Force v. Rose, 425 U.S. 352, 96 S.Ct. 1592, 48 L.Ed.2d 11 (1976), the Supreme Court left undecided the question whether Exemption 2 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)1 per*1053mits a federal agency to withhold documents whose “disclosure may risk circumvention of agency regulation.”2 In the present case we are presented squarely with that question.
This appeal involves a claim by the Government that portions of an agent’s training manual of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (BATF) should not be released pursuant to FOIA since to do so…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Department of the Air Force v. RoseSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Richards v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Mastro Plastics Corp. v. National Labor Relations BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- William Jordan v. United States Department of JusticeCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1978
- Lesar v. United States Department of JusticeCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1980
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3Cited by281 opinions
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- Pratt v. WebsterCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1982
- Fielding M. McGehee III v. Central Intelligence AgencyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1983
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- Arthur M. Schiller v. National Labor Relations BoardCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1992
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