Legal Opinion

Eil v. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

District Court, D. Rhode Island

Decided September 16, 2016No. C.A. No. 1:15-cv-99-M-LDAPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

John J. McConnell, Jr., United States District Judge.

Philip Eil, an award-winning freelance journalist, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)1 request with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration seeking copies of all the exhibits the government had introduced in the criminal trial of Dr. Paul H. Volkman. The government initially objected to producing any documents but eventually produced some of the requested documents, most of them heavily redacted. Mr. Eil filed this complaint in order to obtain unredacted copies of the produced exhibits and copies of the remaining…

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