Legal Opinion
Robert George Wightman, Jr. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 5, 1985No. 84-1233PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is taken from an order of the district court granting summary judgment to the appellee, The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF).
I. FACTS
The appellant, Robert G. Wightman, Jr., requested copies of certain BATF records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552. Under § 552(a)(3) *981of the Act, an agency must make their records available to any person upon request, although there are nine exemptions which agencies can claim listed in § 552(b). The BATF rejected Wightman’s record request in its entirety, relying on the following four…
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