COMMON CAUSE v. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE

No. 80-1097.

646 F.2d 656 (1981)

COMMON CAUSE et al., Appellants, v. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 9, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Richard W. Perkins, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom M. Carr Ferguson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., and Stephen Gray, Attorney, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief, for appellees. Ernest J. Brown, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellees.

Before McGOWAN, Chief Judge, and GINSBURG, Circuit Judge, and GREEN, JOYCE HENS, United States District Judge for the District of Columbia.


Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge McGOWAN.

McGOWAN, Chief Judge:

Common Cause and two individual plaintiffs, David Cohen and Nan Waterman,1 filed suit pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Supp. III 1979), to compel the Internal Revenue Service (IRS or Service) to produce, among other things, certain correspondence, internal documents, and memoranda which related to the Service's decision...

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