Legal Opinion
Gellman v. Department of Homeland Security
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 20, 2020No. Civil Action No. 2016-0635Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BARTON GELLMAN, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 16-cv-635 (CRC) DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Journalist Barton Gellman filed Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests with a host of federal intelligence agencies seeking every record in their files that mentions his name. When many of the agencies failed to respond within the required statutory timeframe, Gellman filed this suit. The agencies have now finished processing all of Gellman’s requests. In total, they provided him some 4,500 pages of…
2Cases cited61 opinions
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