LEE v. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

No. Civ.A. 99-3380(RMC).

401 F.Supp.2d 123 (2005)

Wen Ho LEE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

November 16, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allyson Newton Ho, Washington, DC, Brian A. Sun, Jones Day, Los Angeles, CA, Charles Kevin Marshall, Thomas C. Green, Frank R. Volpe, Joseph R. Palmore, Mark D. Hopson, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Washington, DC, Luan K. Phan, O'Neill, Lysaght & Sunn LLP, Santa Monica, CA, Betsy Alexandra Miller, Jones Day, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Ann L. Weismann, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, Anthony Joseph Coppolino, Elizabeth J. Shapiro, U.S. Department of Justice, Marcia N. Tiersky, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Charles D. Tobin, Ethan Ray Arenson, Holland & Knight, LLP, Washington, DC, Donald John Mulvihill, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, Washington, DC, Floyd Abrams, Joel Kurtzberg, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel LLP, New York, NY, Lee J. Levine, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP, Washington, DC, David A. Schulz, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP, New York, NY, Seth D. Berlin, Levine Sullivan & Koch, LLP, Kevin T. Baine, Kevin Hardy, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

COLLYER, District Judge.

The Court considers Plaintiff Wen Ho Lee's request to hold Walter Pincus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post and a non-party to this lawsuit, in civil contempt. In the underlying action, Dr. Lee accuses various federal agencies of violating his rights under the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a (2000), by "leaking...

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