TENNESSEAN NEWSPAPERS, INC. v. FEDERAL HOUSING ADMIN.

No. 71-1676.

464 F.2d 657 (1972)

TENNESSEAN NEWSPAPERS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

May 4, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred H. Knight, III, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant; William R. Willis, Jr., Willis, Knight & Barr, Nashville, Tenn., on brief.

Leonard Schaitman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellees; L. Patrick Gray, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton Hollander, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Charles H. Anderson, U. S. Atty., Nashville, Tenn., on brief.

Before EDWARDS and MILLER, Circuit Judges, and WILSON, Chief District Judge.


EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the first instance in which this court has had to deal with the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S. C. § 552 (1970).

The Committee Report in the House of Representatives sheds this light on the old act and on the background of the legislation we construe:

"Section 3 of the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 1002), though titled `Public Information' and clearly intended for that purpose, has been used...

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