Legal Opinion
Inst. for Justice v. Internal Revenue Serv.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided September 28, 2018No. Case No. 1:16-cv-02406-TNMPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
TREVOR N. MCFADDEN, U.S.D.J.
The Institute for Justice is a nonprofit interested in civil forfeiture issues, and the Internal Revenue Service conducts civil seizures and forfeitures as part of its law enforcement role. At issue here is the Institute's request under the Freedom of Information Act for a comprehensive "database dump" from the IRS Asset Forfeiture Tracking and Retrieval System (AFTRAK), which monitors seized assets. The IRS contends that AFTRAK is not a database containing "records" and thus subject to FOIA but is only an electronic system that generates reports based on "records"…
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