Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Department of Housing & Urban Development of the United States

OPINION AND ORDER

JOHN W. LORD, Jr., District Judge.

This is a proceeding under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C.A. § 552 et seq. (hereinafter the Act). Plaintiff 1 seeks to compel the defendants to provide it with the names of certain appraisers who have, allegedly, appraised, far in excess of their value, dilapidated homes. As a result of these appraisals, furnished to the Federal Housing Authority (hereinafter sometimes FHA), low income buyers, particularly vulnerable to misinformation in economic matters, have been victimized into the purchase of these homes. For reasons set forth…