Legal Opinion
Fred B. Black, Jr. v. Sheraton Corporation of America Appeal of United States of America
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 22, 1977No. 75-2039PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by LEVEN-THAL, Circuit Judge.
LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff is a Washington lobbyist who fell from grace in 1963-64. Plaintiff claims that his loss of employment and reputation was caused by government dissemination of information gained from an illegal eavesdrop in 1963. Plaintiff sought discovery of certain government documents in order to prove this theory. The government, which had disclosed logs of its surveillance and memoranda based thereon, declined to produce the particular documents except to the district court in camera. The district court rejected…
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3Cited by141 opinions
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