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CONSUMERS UNION OF U.S., INC. v. VETERANS ADMIN.

No. 68-Civ. 2975.

301 F.Supp. 796 (1969)

CONSUMERS UNION OF UNITED STATES, INC., Plaintiff, v. VETERANS ADMINISTRATION; W. J. Driver, Administrator of Veterans Affairs of the Veterans Administration; Francis E. Blalock, Chief, Paperwork Management Division, Medical Administrative Service, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration; and H. M. Engle, M. D., Chief Medical Director, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

July 10, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karpatkin, Ohrenstein & Karpatkin, New York City, for plaintiff; by Marvin M. Karpatkin, Michael N. Pollet, Barry Satlow, New York City, of counsel.

Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty. for the Southern District of New York, for defendants; by David L. Katsky, Simon P. Gourdine, Asst. U. S. Attys., of counsel.

CROAKE, District Judge.

MEMORANDUM

Consumers Union of the United States, Inc., brings this action to compel the Veterans Administration (VA) and several of its officials to make specified records of the VA's hearing-aid testing program available to it. Under our reading of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, Congress has not exempted these records from its broad mandate that public records be available to the public. Since, however, the...

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