WASHINGTON POST CO. v. U.S. DHHS

No. 88-5094.

865 F.2d 320 (1989)

WASHINGTON POST COMPANY, Appellant, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 6, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Mogin, with whom Kevin T. Baine and Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Mark E. Nagle, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John D. Bates and R. Craig Lawrence, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before WALD, Chief Judge, and EDWARDS and D.H. GINSBURG, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge WALD.

WALD, Chief Judge:

For nine years, The Washington Post Company ("the Post") has been seeking access under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to certain financial disclosure forms filed by scientists who work as consultants for the National Cancer Institute ("NCI"). In the most recent chapter, the Post appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment to the Department of Health...

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