News Org. Asks 11th Circ. To Revive FOIA Suit For 9/11 Docs

Carolina Bolado, Law360, July 19, 2018

A Florida news organization urged the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to revive its bid for access to documents related to potential Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks, arguing there is evidence the FBI’s response to the records request was not done in good faith.

In oral arguments in Miami, Thomas Julin of Gunster, who argued on behalf of independent news outlet Florida Bulldog and its founder and editor Dan Christensen, asked for the appeals court to reverse a summary judgment order based on vague assertions from the FBI about where and how it had looked for records responsive to Christensen’s Freedom of Information Act request.

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