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POPE v. UNITED STATES

No. 78-2550.

599 F.2d 1383 (1979)

Dougal C. POPE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 3, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Carr Ferguson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Gilbert E. Andrew, Chief, Appellate Section, Crombie J. D. Garrett, John A. Dudeck, Jr., Attys., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant-appellant.

Engel, Groom, Miglicco & Gibson, Rudy M. Groom, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before AINSWORTH and VANCE, Circuit Judges, and BOOTLE, District Judge.

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

The question in this appeal is whether certain documents containing unsolicited information concerning possible misconduct by a lawyer given to the Internal Revenue Service are exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)1 where the information subsequently led to the consideration of disciplinary proceedings against the lawyer and disclosure of the documents would reveal the source of the...

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