FOIA Advisor

Court opinions issued Nov. 7, 2019

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Kanam v. Office of Benton Peterson (D.D.C.) -- dismissing plaintiff’s lawsuit because he sent FOIA request to an Assistant United States Attorney instead of to the FOIA office that maintains the records or to DOJ’s mail referral unit, as required by DOJ regulations.

Leopold v. CIA (D.D.C.) -- ruling that CIA improperly refused to confirm or deny—pursuant to Exemptions 1 and 3—the existence of records referring to payments (in general, not by CIA specifically) to Syrian rebels fighting Assad, because tweet from President Trump officially acknowledged that “U.S. government had some knowledge of some payments to Syrian rebels.

Summaries of all published opinions issued since April 2015 are available here.