KUEHNERT v. FBI

No. 79-1581.

620 F.2d 662 (1980)

Paul KUEHNERT, Appellant, v. FBI, William Webster, Director, FBI, Roy Klager, Special Agent in Charge of St. Louis Field Office, FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, and Griffin Bell, Attorney General of the United States, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 29, 1980.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied May 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Toby H. Hollander, Hollander & Vaughan, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Susan M. Sleater, Atty., Appellate Staff, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellees; Alice Daniel, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard Schaitman, Atty., Washington, D. C., and Robert Kingsland, U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., on the brief.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, and BRIGHT and HENLEY, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 21, 1980.

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

Paul L. Kuehnert appeals from the district court judgment dismissing his complaint brought under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA or the Act), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1976). Kuehnert's complaint sought disclosure by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of one document withheld in its entirety and portions deleted from twelve other, released...

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