Legal Opinion

Jacobs v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

District Court, District of Columbia

Decided April 26, 2011No. Civil Action 09-2134(RLW)Published

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROBERT L. WILKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a federal prisoner, brought this action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), see 5 U.S.C. § 552, against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”), alleging that it failed to respond to three FOIA requests sent in March 2008 to its Washington, D.C. headquarters office. The Court granted in part the BOP’s first dispositive motion, see Jacobs v. Fed. Bureau of Prisons, 725 F.Supp.2d 85, 91 (D.D.C.2010), finding that the agency’s search for records responsive to plaintiffs requests was adequate. However, because the BOP did not…

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