Legal Opinion
George E. Blue, Cross-Appellant v. Bureau of Prisons, Cross-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 30, 1978No. 76-3793PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
This appeal concerns the criteria for award of attorneys’ fees under the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
At the time he commenced this action, the petitioner, George Blue, was a prisoner in the Atlanta federal penitentiary. In the spring of 1975 he wrote to the Bureau of Prisons, requesting access to his institutional file under the FOIA. Within the next two months the Bureau released 207 of the documents in his file but withheld fifty other documents on the ground that they were exempt from disclosure under the act. Blue brought this FOIA suit disputing the…
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3Cited by103 opinions
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- Catherine Cotton v. I. Michael Heyman, Secretary, the Smithsonian InstitutionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1995
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