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BRANCH v. F.B.I.

Civ. A. No. 86-1643.

700 F.Supp. 47 (1988)

Taylor BRANCH, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

August 30, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine A. Meyer, Patti A. Goldman, Alan B. Morrison, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., John D. Bates, Robert E.L. Eaton, Jr., Asst. U.S. Attys., for defendant.

OPINION

CHARLES R. RICHEY, District Judge.

This case began when plaintiff, a writer and historian, filed a Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") request for documents and files that defendant had compiled between the years 1952 and 1963 on Stanley Levison, a friend and advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Defendant withheld some of the documents pursuant to Exemptions 1 (national security), 2 (internal personnel rules and practices), and 7 (investigatory...

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