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HINTON v. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

No. 87-1390.

844 F.2d 126 (1988)

William H. HINTON v. The DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided April 14, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward S.G. Dennis, Jr., U.S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard Schaitman, E. Roy Hawkens (argued), Attys., Appellate Staff Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for appellants.

Theodore M. Lieverman (argued), Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee.

Before SLOVITER and COWEN, Circuit Judges, and DEBEVOISE, District Judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.

William Hinton filed this action more than seven years ago seeking the release of FBI documents pertaining to him under the Freedom of Information Act. Because the FBI withheld all or portions of a large number of the documents requested, the district court directed the FBI to prepare a Vaughn index, a detailed index correlating each withheld item with the statutory...

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