Legal Opinion
Clemente v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 11, 2017No. 16-5067PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSrinivasan, Circuit Judge
Appellant Angela Clemente, acting under the Freedom of Information Act, sought records from the FBI pertaining to a former informant. Clemente later initiated this FOIA action against the FBI in the district court. Over the course of several years of litigation, the district court granted summary judgment to the FBI on the adequacy of its search for responsive records and its invocation of FOIA’s disclosure exemption for law-enforcement records. In addition, the court twice denied Clemente’s motions for interim attorney fees. The court eventually dismissed the case after Clemente failed to…
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