Legal Opinion
Cummings v. Murphy
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 14, 2018No. Case No. 17-cv-02308 (APM)PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Amit P. Mehta, United States District Judge
I. INTRODUCTION
This case concerns an agency's refusal to produce records in response to what is referred to in political parlance as a "Seven Member Rule" request. That moniker derives from the "Seven Member Rule," which is embodied in 5 U.S.C. § 2954. Adopted by Congress in 1928, section 2954 provides in pertinent part that, upon request of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives ("the House Oversight Committee"), "or of any seven members thereof ," an Executive agency "shall submit any information…
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