Legal Opinion

Stephanie A. Patterson v. Internal Revenue Service

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided June 8, 1995No. 92-4049PublishedCited by 48 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.

Stephanie Patterson made two separate requests for information from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552. In complying with her requests, the IRS disclosed some responsive documents, withheld in full or in part other documents based upon certain statutory ex-' emptions, and reported that it was unable to identify any documents responsive to some of her inquiries. In an action brought by Patterson to compel fuller disclosure, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of the IRS on the basis…

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