Legal Opinion
Harkonen v. United States Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 8, 2015No. 13-15197PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NOONAN, Circuit Judge:
In this case we must decide whether the Administrative Procedure Act and the Information Quality Act confer the right to judicial review of a federal agency’s refusal to correct allegedly false or misleading information published by the agency in a press release. Dr. W. Scott Harkonen argues that he has the right to obtain, and that the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has an obligation to provide, the correction of statements DOJ made about him in a 2009 press release. Not so, the government counters: Individuals have no such right, even if the information DOJ…
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