Legal Opinion
Chase v. U.S. Dep't of Justice
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 15, 2018No. Civil Action No. 17–274 (JEB)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge
Pro se Plaintiff Dennis Chase, a federal prisoner, seeks to obtain documents relating to his 2011 arrest, booking, and detention in Minnesota. To that end, he submitted several Freedom of Information Act requests to Defendants Department of Justice, Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Marshals Service, and Federal Bureau of Investigation in late 2015 and early 2016. When these requests were left unanswered for over a year, he filed this civil action to compel Defendants to respond. Defendants thereafter released several hundred pages of…
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