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Court opinion issued Dec. 17, 2019

Eakin v. DOD (W.D. Tex.) -- finding that: (1) Department of Defense properly declined to produce as “non-responsive” copies of FOIA requests embedded within thousands of Individual Deceased Personnel files of World War II soldiers; (2) agency properly relied on Exemption 6 to withhold information about individuals who are alive; (3) court lacked jurisdiction to order disclosure of digital records that did not exist at time plaintiff submitted his request.

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