Legal Opinion
Hamdan v. United States Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 14, 2015No. 13-55172PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GOULD, Circuit Judge:
Naji Hamdan, Hossam Hemdan, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment to several federal agencies in Plaintiffs’ suit under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”). Plaintiffs contend that: (1) two agencies did not conduct adequate searches for records responsive to Plaintiffs’ FOIA request; (2) two agencies improperly invoked several exemptions to FOIA’s disclosure requirements; and (3) the district court erred in not making findings of fact about whether there was nonexempt…
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