Legal Opinion
American Center for Law and Justice v. United States Department of State
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 17, 2017No. Civil Action No. 2016-2516PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge
Even if Rome could not be built in a day, Plaintiff American Center for Law and Justice believes that the government should be able to assess Freedom of Information Act requests in twenty. In the lead-up to this case, ACLJ asked Defendant Department of State for records pertaining to its funding of an organization that opposed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during that country’s 2015 elections. FOIA allows federal agencies twenty days to decide whether to release information in response to such requests. That time…
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