American Civil Liberties Union v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

ORDER REGARDING CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

RICHARD SEEBORG, United States District Judge

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the Asian Law Caucus, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian filed this action, averring that the Federal Bureau of Investigations has improperly withhéld or redacted documents in violation of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (2012). In 2010, the Plaintiffs filed two FOIA. requests, seeking documents relating to the FBI’s alleged surveillance activities of Muslim and other ethnic and racial groups in…