Legal Opinion
Rockwell International Corp. v. U.S. Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 5, 2001No. 99-5218PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.
TATEL, Circuit Judge:
Responding to congressional criticism, the Department of Justice prepared an internal report defending its prosecution of appellant for environmental crimes allegedly committed at the Rocky Flats nuclear facility. Although the Department released the text of the report to the public, it withheld a series of supporting documents, mostly inter- and intra-agency memoranda written by Department lawyers. Relying on Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act, which protects certain inter- and intra-agency mem-oranda from…
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