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Court opinions issued Sept. 28, 2019

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Schneider v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- ruling that FBI conducted adequate search for background investigation records pertaining to plaintiff and that it properly withheld contested records pursuant to Exemption 7(E).

Brady Ctr. To Prevent Gun Violence v. DOJ (D.D.C.) --finding that: (1) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives failed to perform adequate search for records concerning 2017 White Paper about reducing firearm regulations; and (2) ATF properly withheld email attachments wholly unrelated to subject of request as “out of scope.”

Summaries of all published opinions issued since April 2015 are available here.