Pickard v. Department of Justice

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR DE NOVO REVIEW AND HOLDING THAT GOVERNMENT MAY WITHHOLD MATERIALS

Charles R. Breyer, United States District Judge

This is a long-standing FOIA case involving a convicted LSD manufacturer’s search for information about a confidential informant who testified against him. The particular motion that is pending, however—Defendant United States Department of Justice’s Second Motion for De Novo Determination of Dispositive Matter Referred to Magistrate Judge, 2d Mot. for De Novo Review (dkt. 260)—involves information that the parties agree is already known, because a…