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PROVENZANO v. UNITED STATES DEPT. OF JUSTICE

No. 82-5681.

717 F.2d 799 (1983)

PROVENZANO, Anthony, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, William French Smith, Attorney General of the United States, and William H. Webster, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided September 15, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey Weissbard, West Orange, N.J., for appellant.

J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., W. Hunt Dumont, U.S. Atty., Newark, N.J., Leonard Schaitman, Douglas Letter (argued), Attys., Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for appellees.

Before GIBBONS and HUNTER, Circuit Judges, and MANSMANN, District Judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM:

In April of 1978 Anthony Provenzano submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Justice for all documents indexed under or containing his name. In July of 1980 he appealed to the Attorney General from the failure of the Criminal Division to respond to his request, and was informed that since it would take 25 months before the request could be processed, he could regard his appeal as denied, and bring...

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