Legal Opinion

American Immigration Lawyers Ass'n v. Executive Office for Immigration Review

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided July 29, 2016No. 15-5201PublishedCited by 106 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SRINIVASAN, Circuit Judge:

Immigration judges are employees of the Department of Justice. The American Immigration Lawyers Association submitted a request to the Department under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking disclosure of records related to complaints about the conduct of immigration judges. In response to the request, the government disclosed thousands of pages of records. The government, however, redacted information in those records that it believes is either statutorily exempt from disclosure or non-responsive to the re- • quest. The district court upheld both categories…

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3Cited by106 opinions

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