United States Ninth Circuit

The law enforcement exception to Freedom of Information Act disclosures, 5 USC 552(b)(7)(C), will not allow the Customs Service to withhold a general physical description of its officers arrested for drug smuggling.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/08/2001
• Decided 03/12/2001
• Published 03/12/2001

Judges

• TROTT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  LEAVY, TROTT and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tali M. Tuchin, (Briefed), Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, LLP, San Diego, California, for plaintiff-appellant., James M. Chadwick, (Argued), Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, LLP, San Diego, California, for plaintiff-appellant., Gregg P. Leslie, (Brief Amicus Curiae), The Reporters Committee for Freedom of Press, Arlington, Virginia, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jan L. Luymes, United States Attorney's Office, Santa Ana, California, for defendants-appellees.