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FOIA News: SCOTUS won't hear dispute over meaning of "agency record"

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Supreme Court Won’t Take Up Petition Over Agency Records In FOIA Requests

Lexis Legal News, May 1, 2023 

An investigative journalist’s questions over when a document is considered an “agency record” that is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) will go unheard by the U.S. Supreme Court, which denied the petition for certiorari in its May 1 order list.

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P.S. The Behar decision in the Second Circuit was among our top ten FOIA decisions of 2022.