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CALHOUN v. LYNG

No. 87-4618 Summary Calendar.

864 F.2d 34 (1988)

M. Riemer CALHOUN, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Richard E. LYNG, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 1, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murray A. Calhoun, Joseph E. LeBlanc, Jr., James K. Irvin, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

John R. Halliburton, Asst. U.S. Atty., Joseph S. Cage, Jr., U.S. Atty., Shreveport, La., Robert K. Rasmussen, Leonard Schairman, Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before RUBIN, GARWOOD, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

Appealing the district court's refusal to order the production of documents from a government agency under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the party seeking disclosure raises only issues in which the district court's decision has support in the record or were not raised in the district court. Because we sit to review error, not as a court of first instance, we affirm the fact findings of the district court, as we are obliged to...

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