Legal Opinion
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Department of Commerce
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided July 29, 2005No. Civil Action 95-133 (RCL), 97-289(RCL), 97-2416(RCL), 96-2747(RCL)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
LAMBERTH, District Judge.
These cases concern several related Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests made by Judicial Watch, the plaintiff, to the Department of Commerce (“DOC”), the defendant. On September 30, 2004, after nearly ten years of litigation, this Court granted summary judgment to DOC in each case and dismissed each case because DOC had, at last, conducted a reasonable search for responsive documents and because DOC’s withhold-ings and redactions of responsive documents were proper. While DOC ultimately convinced the Court that it had met its FOIA…
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