Legal Opinion
Lamont v. Department of Justice
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 2, 1979No. 76 Civ. 3092PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.
Plaintiff, Corliss Lamont, the subject of a three-decade period of surveillance by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), petitioned the Department of Justice (the “Department”) for disclosure of all FBI records containing information relating to him, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act of 1966 (“FOIA” or the “Act”). 1 In response, the Department released only 274 of the 2739 pages of material in its file on Lamont. He then commenced the instant lawsuit to compel release of the remainder, following which defendant disclosed an additional…
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3Cited by84 opinions
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