Legal Opinion
Baker v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 12, 2017No. 16-4188PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal challenges a district-court decision that dismissed with prejudice the plaintiffs suit against the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(B). Initially the plaintiff, Baker, sued to obtain all records connected to an investigation in which he was interested, but the FBI gave him only redacted records, and so now he seeks disclosure of the redacted (i.e., hidden from him) names.
The records he sought and seeks involve an FBI investigation of a protection racket run by two" Chicago police officers, Ronald Watts (a police sergeant) and…
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