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Eighth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment In FOIA Case

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2009

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Disclosure of Records, Freedom of Information Act. Location: Minnesota.

On April 29, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a grant of summary judgment for the FBI in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit brought by Leonard Peltier.

Peltier was convicted in 1977 of murdering two FBI agents and sentenced to two consecutive life ...

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