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PLN Wins Partial Victory, Attorneys Fees in FOIA Video Tape Suit Against U.S. Attorneys’ Office
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2011
by Brandon Sample
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2011, page 48
by Brandon Sample and Derek Gilna
Filed under:
Disclosure of Records,
Freedom of Information Act,
Wrongful Death,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
PLN Litigation.
Location:
Colorado.
In a lawsuit brought under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Prison Legal News was awarded attorneys fees by a U.S. District Court in Colorado after the federal government agreed to release some of the records requested by PLN. On appeal, the Tenth Circuit ...
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