Legal Opinion
Prudential Locations LLC v. U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 9, 2013No. 09-16995PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
The quéstion in this case is whether the identity of a person complaining to a federal agency about a violation of law is protected from disclosure under Exemption 6 of the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”). Plaintiff Prudential Locations (“Prudential”) filed a FOIA request with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”), asking it to disclose the names of the individuals who had complained to HUD that Prudential had violated the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (“RESPA”). (For convenience, we will use the plural even though it is possible that the two…
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