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HOPKINS v. U.S. DEPT. OF HOUSING & URBAN DEV.

No. 967, Docket 90-6269.

929 F.2d 81 (1991)

Thomas G. HOPKINS, as President of Local 17 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, an Unincorporated Association, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; United States of America, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 1, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Collins, Buffalo (Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

John F. Daly, Washington, D.C. (Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard Schaitman, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Dennis C. Vacco, U.S. Atty. W.D.N.Y., Kathleen M. Mehltretter, Buffalo, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before OAKES, Chief Judge, and MINER and WALKER, Circuit Judges.

OAKES, Chief Judge:

The Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (the "FOIA"), was enacted in 1966 to create a broad right of access to official information. See United States Dep't of Justice v. Reporters Comm. for Freedom of the Press, 489 U.S. 749, 772-73, 109 S.Ct. 1468, 1481-82, 103 L.Ed.2d 774 (1989). The general philosophy of the FOIA is "`full agency disclosure unless information is exempted under clearly delineated...

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