Legal Opinion
Shapiro v. Department of Justice
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 31, 2014No. Civil Action No. 2013-0729PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, United States District Judge
This is a Freedom of Information Act case brought by plaintiff Ryan Noah.Shapiro against the United States Department of Justice. Shapiro has requested information about Aaron Swartz, a recently deceased computer programmer, activist, and doctoral candidate at MIT. It is alleged that Swartz committed suicide after becoming the subject of an intensive federal investigation. This matter is now before the Court on the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment. 1
I. BACKGROUND
After plaintiff submitted his FOIA request, the Federal Bureau of…
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