SAN DIEGO -- A California AIDS activist has sued the federal government, arguing for the release of documents that are connected to what he believes was a plan to secretly create the virus in an effort to kill blacks.

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The suit will be heard Thursday in federal court, where attorneys for the federal government will attempt to have the case dismissed.

Normal Heights, Calif., resident Boyd Graves, 50, who brought the suit, is an Annapolis graduate who has also attended law school. He told the San Diego Union-Tribune that he believes the documents prove that the feds are responsible for the AIDS epidemic.

"This is a modern-day David vs. Goliath battle," Graves told the paper.

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Despite the fact that Graves is not a member of the California bar, he will represent himself in the case. He told the Union-Tribune that AIDS was created after decades of government research into developing a race-specific virus that attacks and kills blacks.

Graves also maintains that the government has withheld a cure for the virus. He filed the suit in December of last year and is attempting to procure from the feds a "flow chart" that maps HIV. Graves believes that the chart is stored in the National Cancer Institute's archives. He's also seeking to review copies of "progress reports" on the program.

Graves has supporters in his quest for the documents.

Jan Stiglitz, a professor at the California Western School of Law, told the paper that judges are the proper arbiters of any cases that involve a citizen suspicious that the federal government is withholding information that the public has a need to know.

Stiglitz cited several examples when the government had kept back such information, including the FBI's collection of information about private citizens.