Legal Opinion
Lopez v. Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 11, 2005No. 03-5192PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SENTELLE, Circuit Judge.
Ramon Lopez appeals the District Court’s decision in which the court held that he was not entitled to certain documents related to a grand jury investigation under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”). Specifically, the court held that the documents requested by Lopez fell within the third class of documents exempted from FOIA: documents protected by other statutes (in this case, documents covered by Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure). See Memorandum Opinion, Lopez v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, No. 99-1722, slip op. at 4-5 (D.D.C. filed Mar. 19, 2001)…
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