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WIENER v. F.B.I.

No. 88-5867.

943 F.2d 972 (1991)

Jonathan M. WIENER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION; Federal Bureau of Investigation, Los Angeles Field Office; Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office; Federal Bureau of Investigation, Detroit Field Office, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 12, 1991.

As Amended September 26, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark D. Rosenbaum, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, Dan Marmalefsky, Hufstedler, Miller, Kaus & Beardsley, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Miriam McIntire Nisbet, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Judith R. Epstein, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Oakland, Cal., for amicus.

Before BROWNING, SCHROEDER and FERGUSON, Circuit Judges.

JAMES R. BROWNING, Circuit Judge:

Professor Jonathan M. Wiener, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1988), for disclosure of records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning John Lennon, late member of the Beatles. Professor Wiener sought to further his research into John Lennon's life,1...

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