QUARLES v. DEPARTMENT OF NAVY

No. 88-5328.

893 F.2d 390 (1990)

Randy QUARLES, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 26, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eleanor H. Smith, with whom Alan B. Morrison, Washington, D.C., and Patti A. Goldman, were on the brief, for appellant.

Thomas J. McIntyre, with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., John D. Bates and R. Craig Lawrence, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before MIKVA, EDWARDS and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS.

STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves the application of subsection (b)(5) of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1988), known as the "deliberative process" exemption, to certain cost estimates prepared by Navy officials in the course of the Navy's selecting homeports for ships in a new battleship group. We affirm the district court's finding that subsection...

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