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TENNESSEAN NEWSPAPER, INC. v. LEVI

Nos. 75-350-NA-CV to 75-352-NA-CV.

403 F.Supp. 1318 (1975)

TENNESSEAN NEWSPAPER, INC.; Marsha Vande Berg, individually, and as an Employee of Tennessean Newspaper, Inc.; and Middle Tennessee Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi v. Edward LEVI, Attorney General of the United States, and Charles H. Anderson, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. WLAC-TV, INC., and Chris Clark, Individually, and as an Employee of WLAC-TV, Inc. v. Edward LEVI, Attorney General of the United States, and Charles H. Anderson, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. The NASHVILLE BANNER PUBLISHING COMPANY and Larry Brinton, Individually, and as an Employee of the Nashville Banner Publishing Co. v. Edward LEVI, Attorney General of the United States, and Charles H. Anderson, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.

United States District Court, M. D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

November 11, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Willis, Jr., Alfred H. Knight, III, and I. C. Waddey, Jr., Willis & Knight, Nashville, Tenn., for Tennessean Newspaper, Inc. and WLAC-TV, Inc.

James F. Neal, Neal & Harwell, Nashville, Tenn., for Nashville Banner Pub. Co.

Charles Fels and Martha Johnson Trammell, Asst. U. S. Attys., Nashville, Tenn., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

FRANK GRAY, Jr., Chief Judge.

These substantially identical actions for injunctive and declaratory relief were consolidated for the purposes of hearing and disposition. The plaintiffs seek to enjoin the defendants from withholding certain information about persons arrested or charged with the violation of federal criminal statutes and to obtain a declaratory judgment that such withholding is violative of the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. §...

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