Legal Opinion
Cause of Action Inst. v. Pompeo
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 20, 2018No. Case No. 1:16-cv-02145 (TNM)PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TREVOR N. MCFADDEN, U.S.D.J.
In this suit, Cause of Action Institute invokes the Federal Records Act as grounds for requiring the Defendants-the Secretary of State and the Archivist of the United States-to enlist the Attorney General's help in recovering work-related emails that former Secretary of State Colin Powell exchanged using an AOL email account. I denied the Government's first motion to dismiss-despite its claim that further searching for the emails would futile-reasoning that search efforts thus far had been anemic, and that the Plaintiff had shown a substantial likelihood that the…
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