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Court opinion issued July 7, 2023

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Pfeiffer v. U.S. Dep’t of Energy (D.D.C.) -- denying government’s motion for reconsideration of court’s rulings that: (1) plaintiff qualified as an educational institution because he demonstrated that his requests were connected to his scholarly research ; and (2) plaintiff’s potential profit from publishing responsive records on his webpage did not trump plaintiff’s intentions to use records for scholarly purposes, and therefore government improperly denied plaintiff’s fee waiver request.

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