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Unanimous Supreme Court OKs duplicative FOIA suit

June 2, 2009 Peter Scheer

The Supreme Court ruled today in a federal FOIA case that a person contesting an agency’s denial of a record request may file his own suit for disclosure, even though he seeks the very same records that the agency denied in a prior case in which the agency prevailed in court.

The case is Taylor v. Sturgell. Here is the text of the Court’s opinion.

-PS