DIAMOND v. F.B.I.

No. 1256, Docket 82-6349.

707 F.2d 75 (1983)

Sigmund DIAMOND, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, William Webster, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice, Griffin Bell, Attorney General of the United States, and Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Haliburton Fales, 2d, New York City (Dorothea W. Regal, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Franklin H. Stone, Asst. U.S. Atty., S.D. N.Y., New York City (John S. Martin, Jr., U.S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., Jane E. Bloom, Thomas D. Warren, Asst. U.S. Attys., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN and VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judges, and MISHLER, District Judge.


IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from Judge Carter's refusal to compel disclosure of certain materials pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"). We are spared an extensive recitation of the facts and procedural history, since both are admirably set forth in the district court opinion, Diamond v. FBI, 532 F.Supp. 216 (S.D.N.Y.1981). We shall refer only to those details necessary to our discussion...

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