United States Fifth Circuit

Summary judgment for plaintiff and an order requiring disclosure of a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) filed by a bank with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is vacated where the district court erred in failing to remand the case to the OCC for an initial administrative determination of plaintiff's request, using the standard imposed by the district court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/12/2006
• Published 10/12/2006

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, HIGGINBOTHAM and GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steve I. Frank, Leonard Aaron Schaitman, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae U.S., Gregory Francis Taylor, C. Dawn Causey, American Bankers Ass'n, Gen. Counsel, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae, Am. Bankers Assn.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas More Flanagan, Jennifer L. Thornton, Stanley, Flanagan & Reuter, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Ellen McElligott Warwick, Office of Comptroller of Currency, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellant.