The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will get another chance to protect the identity of informants in the investigation of a real estate kickback scheme in Hawaii.
HUD had lost a round in an Hawaiian court when a three-judge panel said the agency failed to explain why it redacted the names of informants in documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act. -db
From the Courthouse News Service, January 18, 2012, by Tim Hull.