Legal Opinion
Fund for Constitutional Government v. National Archives and Records Service
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 31, 1981No. 79-2047, 79-2084PublishedCited by 340 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by District Judge GASCH.
GASCH, District Judge:
This Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 1 case presents questions of the scope and applicability of FOIA. Exemption 7(C) 2 and Fed.R.Crim.P. 6(e), pertaining to grand jury secrecy, in conjunction with FOIA Exemption 3. 3 It also presents a question regarding the meaning of the requirement that a party “substantially prevail” as a prerequisite for an award of attorney fees under 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(E). Because we have concluded that the district court properly applied the claimed exemptions to the information here in…
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