Government Attic
If you aren't familiar with Government Attic, it is a newly re-designed website that "provides electronic copies of hundreds of interesting Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of...
View Article09-1279 FCC v. AT&T, Inc.
FOIA Personal privacy; corporations Corporations do not have “personal privacy” for the purposes of the exemption in 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(7)(C). AT&T argues that the word “personal” in Exemption 7(C)...
View Article09-1163 Milner v. Department of the Navy
FOIA Exemptions; personnel rules Because Exemption 2 to FOIA encompasses only records relating to employee relations and human resources issues, it does not apply to a request for explosives maps and...
View ArticleBEV BUTULA: Welcome to Sunshine Week
This is Sunshine Week. The focus of the Sunshine Week initiative is to promote government transparency and freedom of information. Thanks to the folks over at INFOdocket, I learned about the recent...
View ArticleFOIA disclosure bars lawsuit
Washington (Dolan) — A federal agency’s response to a Freedom of Information Act request is a “report” within the meaning of the False Claims Act’s public disclosure bar, the U.S. Supreme Court has...
View ArticleJustice Department pulls back non-disclosure proposal
By PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department reported Thursday it is dropping its proposal to let federal law enforcement agencies in rare cases tell Freedom of Information...
View ArticleCivil Procedure – FOIA – discovery — attorney work product
12-2273 Appleton Papers Inc. v. EPA The post Civil Procedure – FOIA – discovery — attorney work product first appeared on Wisconsin Law Journal - WI Legal News & Resources.
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