CENTER FOR NAT. POLICY REV., ETC. v. RICHARDSON

No. 75-1431.

534 F.2d 351 (1976)

CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY REVIEW ON RACE AND URBAN ISSUES et al., Appellants, v. Elliot L. RICHARDSON, Secretary, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 25, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Silard, Washington, D. C., with whom Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief for appellants.

Ronald R. Glancz, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Rex E. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., and Leonard Schaitman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellees.

Before WRIGHT, MacKINNON and ROBB, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Appellants seek disclosure of certain files of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare containing material on public school segregation in northern localities. In 1972 the District Court held that the bulk of the contested files must be disclosed, rejecting the Department's argument that all the files were exempt from disclosure under 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7), which statute then exempted "investigatory files compiled for law enforcement purposes...

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