Legal Opinion
Wanda Henke and Robert Henke v. United States Department of Commerce and National Science Foundation
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 17, 1996No. 95-5181PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge HENDERSON.
KAREN LeCRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge:
At issue in this Privacy Act case is the decision of the National Science Foundation (NSF) not to identify who among twelve peer reviewers prepared written evaluations of an ultimately unsuccessful research grant proposal. NSF withheld their names pursuant to Privacy Act exemption (k)(5) which protects the identity of a source who, under an express promise of confidentiality, provides an agency with information regarding, inter alia, the suitability or qualifications of an applicant for a federal…
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