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IRONS v. BELL

No. 78-1350.

596 F.2d 468 (1979)

Peter Hanlon IRONS, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Griffin B. BELL et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 27, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia G. Reeves, Atty., App. Staff, Civil Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Edward F. Harrington, U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., and Leonard Schaitman, Atty., App. Staff, Civil Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on brief, for defendants, appellants.

Peter H. Irons, on brief, pro se.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal in a suit brought pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act. 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 & 552a. The government appeals from that portion of the district court's order which required the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to release to plaintiff-appellee twenty-five documents allegedly immune from disclosure under Exemption 7(D) of the FOIA. 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(D).1

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