ORTIZ v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

No. 92 Civ. 0562 (JES).

874 F.Supp. 570 (1995)

Bernice ORTIZ, Plaintiff, v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

January 19, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Legal Services for the Elderly, New York City (Jonathan A. Weiss, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Mary Jo White, U.S. Atty. for the S.D. of N.Y., New York City, Susan D. Baird, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SPRIZZO, District Judge.

Plaintiff brings this action under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1988), to obtain an anonymous letter (the "letter") to the Social Security Administration containing allegations about the plaintiff. Defendant, the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS" or the "Government"), withheld the letter from release on the grounds that disclosure of the letter would reasonably...

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