Legal Opinion
Valencia-Lucena v. United States Coast Guard
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 25, 1999No. 98-5041PublishedCited by 750 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge ROGERS.
ROGERS, Circuit Judge:
Carlos Valencia-Lucena appeals from the grant of summary judgment to the Coast Guard in his lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552 et seq., seeking pages from the logbook of a Coast Guard cutter that seized containers of drugs dropped offshore from an airplane that he piloted. According to Valencia-Lucena’s FOIA request, the Captain of the Coast Guard cutter brought the logbook to Valencia-Lucena’s criminal trial and .referred to pages of the logbook in testifying to the amount of drugs.…
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