Legal Opinion
Matthew G. Yeager v. Drug Enforcement Administration
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 14, 1982No. 79-2275, 80-2465PublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TAMM, Circuit Judge:
This case presents several novel and important questions concerning the interpretation of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA or the Act), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1976), as it applies to agency records stored in computers. The central claim is that the FOIA requires the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA or the Agency) to use so-called “disclosure-avoidance techniques” in fulfilling its duty to release reasonably seg-regable nonexempt portions of records. Because we find that the FOIA imposes no agency duty to employ such computer techniques and appellant concedes that the…
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