Legal Opinion
People for the American Way Foundation v. United States Department of Justice
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided July 18, 2006No. Civil Action 04-1421 (JDB)PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BATES, District Judge.
Plaintiff People for the American Way Foundation (“PFAWF”) brings this action against the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), seeking documents pertaining to sealed cases relating to post-9/11 immigrant detainees. Defendant has moved for summary judgment on the grounds that plaintiffs FOIA request necessitates a manual search of at least 44,000 files for documents that are: (1) not easily identifiable from its case management database, and (2) scattered across more than eighty different U.S. Attorney’s Offices…
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