Melvin Gale v. U. S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons

This case is completely frivolous in so many ways that I am forced to dissent and to spell out the fundamental legal considerations which support that conclusion. It is misguided sympathy for appellant to send him further along the frivolous road. It also indicates why our court docket is jammed and decisions in meritorious cases of great magnitude are delayed.

Gale is a prisoner at Lewisburg Penitentiary where he is serving sentences imposed by the District and Superior Courts in the District of Columbia. Relying on the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts he “requested documents” of the…