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COMMON CAUSE v. NATIONAL ARCHIVES & RECORDS SERV.

No. 79-1637.

628 F.2d 179 (1980)

COMMON CAUSE et al., Appellants, v. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 30, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellen G. Block, Washington, D. C., with whom Kenneth J. Guido, Jr., Donald J. Simon, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Howard S. Scher, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Alice Daniel, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Carl S. Rauh, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at the time the brief was filed and Leonard Schaitman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before TAMM and WALD, Circuit Judges, and GASCH, United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WALD.

WALD, Circuit Judge:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1976), Common Cause seeks from the National Archives and Records Service certain documents and memoranda compiled by the Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF).1 The documents and memoranda sought are those which reveal the identities of candidates for federal office to whom nineteen...

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