Legal Opinion
Edward Spannaus v. U.S. Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 21, 1987No. 86-5611PublishedCited by 213 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WILLIAMS.
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
Edward Spannaus filed this Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) suit, 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(B) (1982), to compel the Federal Bureau of Investigation to disclose certain material he requested in two separate letters nearly eight years earlier. The District Court dismissed his suit as untimely under the six-year limitations period of 28 U.S.C. § 2401(a) (1982). Spannaus v. Department of Justice, 643 F.Supp. 698 (D.D.C.1986). We affirm.
I. Introduction
A. The FOIA Requests
Appellant filed two FOIA requests in 1977 with the…
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