ARIEFF v. U.S. DEPT. OF NAVY

No. 82-1536.

712 F.2d 1462 (1983)

Irwin B. ARIEFF, Appellant, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF the NAVY.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 22, 1983.

As Amended August 24, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cornish F. Hitchcock, with whom John C. Sims and Alan B. Morrison, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellant.

Charles D. Ossola, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Leonard Schaitman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., was on brief, for appellee.

Before GINSBURG and SCALIA, Circuit Judges, and GESELL, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SCALIA.

SCALIA, Circuit Judge:

This case is before us on appeal by Irwin B. Arieff, a professional journalist for Congressional Quarterly, from a Memorandum Order of the District Court granting summary judgment to appellee Department of the Navy and dismissing his complaint. Arieff v. Department of the Navy, No. 81-2406 (D.D.C. Apr. 27, 1982). We are asked to decide whether Exemption 6 to the Freedom...

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