Legal Opinion
Dennis R. Walsh v. United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 10, 2005No. 04-1915PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
In January 2002, Dennis Walsh sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the United States Department of Veteran Affairs seeking “all records maintained by your agency pertaining to myself, covering the period January 1,1973 to current date.” Walsh received a set of documents from the VA several months later. Although he also received a letter saying he had been given his “entire VA claims file,” Walsh actually did not receive the rest of the records he requested for over another year. That delay forms the basis of this appeal.
Walsh knew that the first…
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