WOLFE v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

No. 82-1568.

711 F.2d 1077 (1983)

Sidney M. WOLFE, M.D., Public Citizen Health Research Group, Appellants, v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 8, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cornish F. Hitchcock, Washington, D.C., with whom William B. Schultz and Alan B. Morrison, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Mark H. Gallant, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., and Leonard Schaitman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before MIKVA and EDWARDS, Circuit Judges, and MacKINNON, Senior Circuit Judge.


Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge MacKINNON.

MacKINNON, Senior Circuit Judge:

The Public Citizen Health Research Group and its director, Sidney Wolfe, filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA or the Act), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1976 & Supp. V 1981), to compel release of a report prepared by President-elect Reagan's transition team regarding the Department of Health and Human...

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