Legal Opinion
Roth Ex Rel. Bower v. United States Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 28, 2011No. 09-5428PublishedCited by 383 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.
Opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part filed by Circuit Judge KAVANAUGH.
TATEL, Circuit Judge:
In this Freedom of Information Act case, a Texas death-row inmate seeks information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he alleges might corroborate his claim that four other men actually committed the quadruple homicide for which he was convicted. The FBI provided a so-called Glomar response, neither confirming nor denying whether it has records regarding three of the four men (the fourth has died). The FBI defends this response…
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