Legal Opinion

Safecard Services, Inc. v. Securities and Exchange Commission

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided March 1, 1991No. 89-5374PublishedCited by 1,810 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge D.H. GINSBURG.

D.H. GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

Appellant SafeCard Services, Inc. sued the Securities and Exchange Commission, under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, to obtain certain documents relating to that agency’s investigation into the manipulation of SafeCard stock. The district court granted the SEC summary judgment with respect to 44 documents for which it claimed the attorney work product or deliberative process privileges of Exemption 5, or invoked the personal privacy provision of Exemption 7(C). 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(5) &…

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