NEW ENGLAND APPLE COUNCIL v. DONOVAN

No. 83-1400.

725 F.2d 139 (1984)

NEW ENGLAND APPLE COUNCIL, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Raymond J. DONOVAN, Secretary of Labor, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 18, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas S. Zeppos, Atty., Appellate Staff, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., with whom J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., William F. Weld, U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., Leonard Schaitman, Atty., Appellate Staff, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Sofia P. Petters and Richard T. Galgay, Attys., U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

S. Steven Karalekas, Washington, D.C., with whom John B. Beaty, and Charles, Karalekas, McCahill & Wilson, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Circuit Judge, SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge, and BREYER, Circuit Judge.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

This case requires us to construe the scope of the personal privacy exemption of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(C). Plaintiffs-appellees, the New England Apple Council (NEAC) and its member growers, seek release of the names of individuals variously involved in an investigation of NEAC conducted in 1979 by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department...

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