· 7/31/1998
Coleman v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Citations
- 13 F. Supp. 2d 75
- 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12141
How courts have described this case
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- finding that “trivial administrative data such as . . . data processing notations[] and other administrative markings” are “low 2” exempt materials
- finding that plaintiff’s conviction “of numerous violent crimes” including murder, rape and kidnaping, as well as “the relation of the witnesses thereto is precisely the type that the implied confidentiality exemption expressed in Landano is designed to encompass”
- allowing withholding of records relating to personality profiles developed by FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit even when the underlying technique was publicly known
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Judges: Lamberth
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