Legal Opinion
Azmy v. United States Department of Defense
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 22, 2008No. 06 Civ. 15340(JSR)PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
JED S. RAKOFF, District Judge.
This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552. On October 27, 2006, plaintiff Baher Azmy, a law professor at Seton Hall University, filed a request under FOIA seeking information regarding his client, Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and permanent resident of Germany, who was captured by the United States in Pakistan and detained by the defendant United States Department of Defense (“DOD”), at the United States Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (“Guantanamo”) from 2002 to 2006. Specifically, the request sought all…
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