Legal Opinion
American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Defense
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 15, 2004No. 04 Civ.4151(AKH)PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
HELLERSTEIN, District Judge.
Ours is a government of laws, laws duly promulgated and laws duly observed. No one is above the law: not the executive, not the Congress, and not the judiciary. See e.g., Youngstown Sheet and Tube, et al. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579, 72 S.Ct. 863, 96 L.Ed. 1153 (1952). One of our laws is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). That law, no less than any other, must be duly observed.
Plaintiffs complain that this law has not been observed. On October 7, 2003, over eleven months ago, plaintiffs duly filed a FOIA request seeking information regarding “(1)…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Hamdi v. RumsfeldSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Robert G. Vaughn v. Bernard Rosen, Executive Director, United States Civil Service CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1973
- Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. SawyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- United States v. RobelSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Eric B. Halpern, Dr. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of JusticeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1999
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3Cited by19 opinions
- American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of JusticeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2012
- Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Department of JusticeDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2014
- Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Department of JusticeDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2006
- Am. Civil Liberties Union v. U.S. Dep't of DefenseCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2018
- American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of DefenseDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2005
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