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BLUE v. BUREAU OF PRISONS

No. 76-3793.

570 F.2d 529 (1978)

George E. BLUE, Petitioner-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. BUREAU OF PRISONS et al., Respondents-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 30, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Stokes, U. S. Atty., Richard A. Horder, Asst. U. S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., Edwin E. Huddleson, III, Thomas G. Wilson, Attys., App. Section, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondents-appellants, cross-appellees.

Ralph Goldberg, David Buffington, Atlanta, Ga., for petitioner-appellee, cross-appellant.

Before JONES, GODBOLD and GEE, Circuit Judges.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal concerns the criteria for award of attorneys' fees under the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

At the time he commenced this action, the petitioner, George Blue, was a prisoner in the Atlanta federal penitentiary. In the spring of 1975 he wrote to the Bureau of Prisons, requesting access to his institutional file under the FOIA. Within the next two months the Bureau released 207 of the documents in his file but withheld...

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