Legal Opinion

Phe, Inc. v. Department of Justice

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided April 7, 1993No. 91-5047PublishedCited by 142 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge KAREN LeCRAFT HENDERSON.

KAREN LeCRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge:

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PHE, Inc. (PHE) is a national distributor of what it believes to be constitutionally protected speech. In 1989, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 1 PHE asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice (Department) to release all documents “whose purpose at least in, part is to define or describe standards for determining whether material is obscene under federal law.” J.A. at 14. The FBI responded by providing PHE with a sixteen page…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Miller v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  2. Department of the Air Force v. RoseSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  3. Mead Data Central, Inc. v. United States Department of the Air ForceCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1977
  4. Cynthia King v. United States Department of JusticeCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1987
  5. Michael Alan Crooker v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & FirearmsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1981

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3Cited by142 opinions

  1. Campbell v. United States Department of JusticeCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1998
  2. Morley v. Central Intelligence AgencyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2007
  3. Trans-Pacific Policing Agreement v. United States Customs ServiceCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1999
  4. Mayer Brown LLP v. Internal Revenue ServiceCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2009
  5. Tax Analysts v. Internal Revenue ServiceCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2002

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