Legal Opinion
American Civil Liberties Union v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 1, 2018No. 16-15178PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HURWITZ, Circuit Judge:
This case requires us to once again construe Exemption 7 of the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7), which governs disclosure of “records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes.”
In analyzing FOIA requests to law enforcement agencies for disclosure of investigatory materials, we have long held that the government need only show a “rational nexus” between enforcement of federal law and a withheld document to invoke Exemption 7. See, e.g., Rosenfeld v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 57 F.3d 803, 808 (9th Cir. 1995). But, we have not yet…
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