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HUNTON & WILLIAMS v. U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

No. 08-1635.

590 F.3d 272 (2010)

HUNTON & WILLIAMS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: January 4, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Edward Peter Noonan, Hunton & Williams, LLP, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant. Robert P. McIntosh, Office of the United States Attorney, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: John Jay Range, Hunton & Williams, LLP, Washington, DC, for Appellant. Dana J. Boente, Acting United States Attorney, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.

Affirmed in part, vacated and remanded in part by published opinion. Judge WILKINSON wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge KEELEY joined. Judge MICHAEL wrote a dissenting opinion.

OPINION

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

This appeal centers on communications between the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") and a telecommunications company, in which the company allegedly lobbied DOJ to take its side in litigation with a client of law firm Hunton and Williams, LLC ("Hunton"). The district court upheld DOJ's decision to deny Hunton's request under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (2006), ("FOIA") for records of those communications...

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