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CROOKER v. U.S. DEPT. OF THE TREASURY

No. 1374, Docket 80-2087.

634 F.2d 48 (1980)

Michael Alan CROOKER, Appellant, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY et al., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Alan Crooker, F. C. I., Danbury, Conn., submitted a brief pro se for appellant.

Frank H. Santoro, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Haven, Conn. (Richard Blumenthal, U. S. Atty. and Anthony Poole, Law Student Intern, New Haven, Conn., on brief), submitted a brief for appellee.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges, and NEAHER, District Judge.

NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

The issue on this appeal is whether a pro se litigant is entitled to an attorney's fee for the value of his own services rendered in the successful resolution of a lawsuit brought under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1976). Appellant, Michael Alan Crooker, is a federal prisoner. While incarcerated, he sought from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) release of documents relating to an investigation of his 1979...

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