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DONOVAN v. F.B.I.

No. 82 Civ. 4776(RWS).

579 F.Supp. 1111 (1983)

Michael DONOVAN, William Ford, James Kazel and Judy Keogh, Plaintiffs, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

On Motion for Reconsideration February 8, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Lawyers Committee for Intern. Human Rights, New York City, for plaintiffs; Allan Blumstein, Michael C. Lasky, James Thornton, Mary Lu Bilek, Michael H. Posner, Diane Orentlicher, New York City, of counsel.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty., S.D. N.Y., New York City, for defendant; Edward G. Williams, Steven E. Obus, Asst. U.S. Attys., New York City, of counsel.

OPINION

SWEET, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in this action are next-of-kin of four American churchwomen—Maureen Clarke, Jean Donovan, Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel—who were murdered in El Salvador on December 2, 1980. After exhausting their administrative remedies, plaintiffs brought this suit under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to compel the disclosure of documents originated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation...

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