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FOIA News: Enviro group seeks discovery in FOIA case, including Pruitt deposition

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Green Group Wants To Depose Pruitt in FOIA Suit Over Emails

Christine Powell, Law360, May 29, 2018

The Center for Biological Diversity announced Monday that it's seeking to depose U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt as part of a lawsuit it brought in D.C. federal court in an effort to force the release of records about his schedule, emails and other communications.

The environmental group said in a news release that it has filed a motion for discovery in which it asks to depose Pruitt about whether he is preserving his emails properly and whether the EPA is searching all of his email accounts in response to public records requests.

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