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Court opinions issued Mar. 19, 2018

Leopold v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- ruling that: (1) FBI conducted reasonable search for investigative records pertaining to Donald Trump's statement about Russia looking for Hillary Clinton's missing emails; (2) FBI properly withheld all responsive records concerning item 1 above pursuant to Exemption 7(A); (3) FBI properly invoked Exemption 7(A) in refusing to confirm or deny existence of investigative records concerning Donald Trump statement about "Second Amendment people" stopping Hillary Clinton; (4) Secret Service properly relied on Exemptions 5 and 7(E) to withhold records concerning plaintiff's requests.  

Dutton v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- determining that FBI and DOJ Inspector General conducted adequate searches for records pertaining to plaintiff, and that government properly withheld records pursuant to Exemptions 1, 3, 5, 6, 7(A), 7(C), 7(D), and 7(E).

Summaries of all opinions issued since April 2015 available here