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FOIA News: Affirmance or reversal? DOJ appellate brief goes both ways.

The Department of Justice was forced to file a corrected brief in the D.C. Circuit after learning that the conclusion section of its brief mistakenly asked the court to affirm, rather than to reverse, the district court’s decision in Cable News Network v. FBI. Slip of the tongue or use of template language gone awry?