Legal Opinion
Moffat v. United States Deparment of Justice
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 14, 2013No. 11-2472PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Shane 0. Moffat commenced this action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, seeking information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) that he believes will exonerate him from his conviction for first degree murder. The government produced certain heavily redacted documents in response to the complaint, and asserted various exemptions to disclosure of the documents’ full contents. The district court subsequently granted the government’s motion for summary judgment, finding that Moffat had received all of the relief to which he…
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