Legal Opinion
Kleinert v. Bureau of Land Management
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 25, 2015No. Civil Action No. 2014-1506PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JOHN D. BATES, United States District Judge
James Kleinert, a documentary filmmaker who felt that the Bureau of Land Management was unfairly impeding his work, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all of the agency’s records that referred to him. After waiting more than a year without receiving any records, Klei-nert filed this suit to compel BLM to turn them over. BLM has now produced roughly 200 pages of records, many of them partially redacted. With opposing views on both the adequacy of BLM’s search and the propriety of many of the redactions, the parties have…
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