Shearn Moody, Jr. v. Internal Revenue Service

WALD, Circuit Judge:

This action is an appeal from a judgment of the district court upholding the Internal Revenue Service’s (“IRS”) refusal to disclose documents pertinent to appellant’s Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests. Appellant Shearn Moody, Jr. (“Moody”) filed three requests 1 pursuant to the FOIA, 5 U.S.C. § 552, asking for the release of all records in the IRS’s possession regarding Moody, several business and charitable entities in which he had interests, 2 and “Project Southwest.” 3 The IRS released many documents pertinent to these requests, but withheld approximately 150…