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California District Court Rips Feds for “False and Misleading Information” in FOIA Case, Then Does Nothing
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2011, page 24
In a lawsuit filed by six Islamic organizations and five individuals, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division, found that the FBI and the U.S. government had “provided false and misleading information to the court” when they represented that their responses to the plaintiffs’ Freedom ...
Filed under:
Government Misconduct,
Disclosure of Records,
Federal Statutory Law,
Freedom of Information Act.
Location:
California.
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