Legal Opinion
Elec. Privacy Info. Ctr. v. Dep't of Justice
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 7, 2017No. Civil No. 13–cv–1961 (KBJ)PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON, United States District Judge
This decision marks the Court's third foray into the dispute between plaintiff Electronic Privacy Information Center ("EPIC") and the Department of Justice ("DOJ") regarding a document request that EPIC submitted to DOJ under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552, in October of 2013. EPIC seeks records about a now-expired U.S. government national security program that involved the surreptitious use of pen register and trap-and-trace ("PR/TT") devices to collect communications information (see Compl., ECF No. 1), and this…
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