Wiener v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

943 F.2d 972 Jonathan M. WIENER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION; Federal Bureau of Investigation, Los Angeles Field Office; Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office; Federal Bureau of Investigation, Detroit Field Office, Defendants-Appellees. No. 88-5867. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Dec. 5, 1989. Decided July 12, 1991. As Amended Sept. 26, 1991. Mark D. Rosenbaum, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, Dan Marmalefsky, Hufstedler, Miller, Kaus & Beardsley, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant. Miriam McIntire Nisbet, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees. Judith R. Epstein, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Oakland, Cal., for amicus. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Before BROWNING, SCHROEDER and FERGUSON, Circuit Judges. JAMES R. BROWNING, Circuit Judge: 1 Professor Jonathan M. Wiener, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1988), for disclosure of records of the Federal Bureau of…