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COX v. LEVI

No. 77-1213.

592 F.2d 460 (1979)

Eddie David COX, Appellant, v. Hon. Edward H. LEVI, Attorney General of the United States, U. S. Department of Justice, and Clarence M. Kelley, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 13, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. McConnell, Jr., of Padberg, McSweeney, Slater, Merz & Reid, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant; Eddie David Cox, pro se, on the brief.

Alice L. Mattice, Atty., Appellate Section, Civ. Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellees; Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Ronald S. Reed, Jr., U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., and Leonard Schaitman and Michael Kimmel, Attys., Washington, D. C., on the brief.

Before LAY, BRIGHT and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges.

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

Eddie David Cox brought this action pro se against the Attorney General of the United States and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (collectively, the Government) to obtain disclosure of two FBI manuals under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1976). The FBI voluntarily disclosed portions of one of the manuals upon Cox's administrative request. In two orders dealing with each manual separately...

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