SUMMERS v. U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

Civ. A. No. 89-3300.

733 F.Supp. 443 (1990)

Anthony SUMMERS, Plaintiff, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

March 2, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan Dodell, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., for defendant.

James H. Lesar, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.


ORDER

REVERCOMB, District Judge.

This is an action brought under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 522, as amended, in which plaintiff-author Tony Summers seeks access to more than 17,000 pages of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's daily logs and appointment calendars as material to be used in a book about the Former Director. The FBI has invoked Open America v. Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 547 F.2d...

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