United States DC Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant, in FOIA action seeking records related to Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, a late, former Colombian politician, is reversed to the extent that the district court held that the existence of records about Gaitan was not officially acknowledged by defendant in testimony before the Congress in 1948.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/16/2006
• Decided 01/16/2007
• Published 01/16/2007

Judges

• Before:  HENDERSON, RANDOLPH and GRIFFITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul Wolf, pro se, argued the cause for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alan Burch, Assistant United States Attorney, argued the cause for the appellees.  Kenneth L. Wainstein, United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and R. Craig Lawrence and Diane M. Sullivan, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on brief for the appellees.  Michael J. Ryan, Assistant United States Attorney, entered an appearance.