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Court opinion issued August 23, 2021

Aguirre v. NRC (9th Cir.) -- affirming district court’s decision that plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies with respect to his four requests concerning the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, and notably joining other circuits in holding that “a requestor must exhaust his administrative remedies under FOIA so long as an agency properly responds before suit is filed.”

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