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POWELL v. U.S. BUREAU OF PRISONS

No. 89-5446.

927 F.2d 1239 (1991)

Thomas D. POWELL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES BUREAU OF PRISONS, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 15, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. Powell, pro se.

William H. Penniman, Washington, D.C. (appointed by the Court), for amicus curiae on behalf of appellant urging that there be a fully informed decision.

Michael L. Martinez, Asst. U.S. Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., John D. Bates and R. Craig Lawrence, Asst. U.S. Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WALD, BUCKLEY and SENTELLE, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WALD.

Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge SENTELLE.

WALD, Circuit Judge:

Thomas Powell appeals from a district court decision granting the Bureau of Prisons' motion for summary judgment and adopting a magistrate's recommendation that Powell's Freedom of Information Act request for disclosure of the "Central Inmate Monitoring Manual" be denied. Events subsequent to the district court's decision cast...

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