Legal Opinion
Taplin v. U.S. Deptartment of Justice
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 10, 2013No. Civil Action No. 2012-1815PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Granting Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment
RUDOLPH CONTRERAS, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
This matter comes before the Court on the defendants’ motion for summary judgment. The plaintiff, an attorney representing a Louisiana death row inmate convicted of first-degree murder, filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking federal law enforcement records relating to the third party whom the plaintiff asserts actually perpetrated the crime for which her client was convicted. The defendants seek summary judgment under Exemption 7(C) on the basis that the public…
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