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· 6/27/2012

McRae v. United States Department of Justice

Citations

  • 869 F. Supp. 2d 151
  • 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 89145

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that ATF properly withheld “the names of and identifying information about federal and state law enforcement agents and third parties whose names appear in the responsive records”
  • concluding that ATF’s search of TECS and N-Force were adequately conducted
  • concluding that the 2005 Rider qualified as Exemption 3 statute
  • “finding adequate the ATF’s search of TECS and N-Force in order to respond to the plaintiffs FOIA request”
  • finding Exemption 7(e) properly applied to “redacted codes, case numbers, and other computer 18 information” because disclosure “could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law”
  • “Congress has expressly prohibited ATF from releasing such documents to the public.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Judge Richard J. Leon

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