Legal Opinion
City of Chicago v. United States Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 12, 2005No. 01-2167PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
For the third time in four years, we consider whether the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) entitles the City of Chicago (the “City”) to information from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (“ATF”) databases regarding the sale and tracing of firearms. In our two previous stabs at the issue, we affirmed the district court’s ruling that ATF must provide the City access to the databases. Subsequent to the release of our second opinion, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2005, which cuts funding for data requests like the City’s and also…
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