DUDMAN COMMUNICATIONS v. DEPT. OF AIR FORCE

No. 86-5154.

815 F.2d 1565 (1987)

DUDMAN COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF the AIR FORCE.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 14, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patti A. Goldman, with whom Alan B. Morrison, Eric R. Glitzenstein and Reuben B. Robertson, III, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Mark E. Nagle, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., Royce C. Lamberth and R. Craig Lawrence, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before MIKVA, RUTH BADER GINSBURG and SILBERMAN, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MIKVA.

MIKVA, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Dudman Communications Corporation, a radio broadcaster, invoked the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to obtain a preliminary draft of a historical work prepared and published by the Department of the Air Force. After the Department denied the FOIA request, Dudman brought suit in district court. The court held that the draft was exempt from FOIA's general...

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