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Court opinion issued June 25, 2018

Higgs v. U.S. Park Police (S.D. Ind.) -- in case involving records of death-row-plaintiff's triple homicide, concluding that: (1)  government properly invoked Exemption 7(D) to withhold source information from FBI interviews, but that Exemption 7(C) withholdings were invalid because government failed to show third parties were still living after passage of 22 years; and (2) government improperly relied on Exemption 7(E) to withhold National Crime Information Center reports and ballistics reports.

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