AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION v. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

No. 04 Civ.4151(AKH).

339 F.Supp.2d 501 (2004)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

September 15, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence S. Lustberg, Gibbons, Del Deo, et al., Newark, NJ, for Plaintiffs.

Sean H. Lane, U.S. Attorney's Office, New York City, for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

HELLERSTEIN, District Judge.

Ours is a government of laws, laws duly promulgated and laws duly observed. No one is above the law: not the executive, not the Congress, and not the judiciary. See e.g., Youngstown Sheet and Tube, et al. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579, 72 S.Ct. 863, 96 L.Ed. 1153 (1952). One of our laws is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). That law, no less than any other, must be...

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