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FBI complies with FOIA request with blacked-out pages
From Yahoo! News:
The FBI and the American Civil Liberties Union seem to have very different interpretations of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
As surfaced by the website Arstechnica, the FBI recently complied with a request from the civil rights organization—sort of.
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Court dismisses FOIA lawsuit, upholds secrecy in drone killings of U.S. citizens
From ACLU:
NEW YORK – A federal court today dismissed most of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records about the government’s targeted killing of three American citizens in Yemen in 2011: Anwar Al-Awlaki and Samir Khan in September, and Al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son Abdulrahman in October.
The ACLU plans to appeal the decision.
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Newly Released Drone Records Reveal Extensive Military Flights in US
From Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Today EFF posted several thousand pages of new drone license records and a new map that tracks the location of done flights across the United States.
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Blogger wins lawsuit vs. Fairfield Twp. (Ohio) over public records
Virginia citizen satisfied with decision in Virginia FOIA case
Summary judgment in Guantanamo FOIA case
From Lawfare:
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates has granted summary judgment to the Pentagon in a Freedom of Information Act cast brought by the International Counsel Bureau and the law firm of Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw Pittman. From the decision:
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Supreme Court presented with major decision in McBurney v. Young
Sierra Club Files FOIA Lawsuit Against TVA
Death row inmate loses FOIA lawsuit against FBI
From Beaumontenterprise.com:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the FBI’s decision to redact information from records sought under the Freedom of Information Act by a Tennessee death row inmate.
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