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FOIA News: D.C. Circuit hears "FOIA record" argument

For those who missed this morning’s hearing in Cause of Action Inst. v. DOJ, here is the audio recording of the argument before the D.C. Circuit. Appellant’s opening argument, which was presented by Ryan Mulvey, comprises the first eighteen minutes of the recording. Notably, during the government’s argument, Senior Judge Harry Edwards stated that he was “flabbergasted” by the government’s “utterly bizarre” and “self-serving” position that a single, paginated document created by DOJ may be segmented into multiple records based on subject matter and then withheld in part as non-responsive to the request.