Legal Opinion
Badhwar v. United States Department of the Air Force
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided November 20, 1985No. Civ. A. 84-0154PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
OBERDORFER, District Judge.
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Plaintiffs in this action are Inter jit Badhwar and Donald F. Goldberg. Both are reporters working on the staff of nationally syndicated columnist Jack Anderson. As part of an investigation of the military’s accident investigation program, plaintiffs sought disclosure of information in the hands of the Departments of the Air Force, Navy, and Army. In response, defendants released a substantial number of documents to plaintiffs, but claimed that other information was exempt from disclosure pursuant to Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act [FOIA], 5…
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