Judith Katherine Exner v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

BARNES, Senior Circuit Judge:

This action in the district court was brought to compel disclosure to plaintiff within certain specified time limits of information sought from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (herein FBI) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, and the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a.

It has no relation to any flat refusal by the FBI to act, but to the FBI’s refusal (a) to act until it has treated all previous requests, seriatim; and (b) to .act until it has satisfied both itself and, in certain matters, the Department of Justice (of…