AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MICH. v. F.B.I.

No. 12-2536.

734 F.3d 460 (2013)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MICHIGAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FEDERAL BUREAU of INVESTIGATION; United States Department of Justice, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 21, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Nusrat J. Choudhury , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York, for Appellant. Catherine H. Dorsey , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Nusrat J. Choudhury , Hina Shamsi , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York, Mark P. Fancher , Michael J. Steinberg , American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, Stephen C. Borgsdorf, Dykema Gossett PLLC, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for Appellant. Catherine H. Dorsey , Matthew M. Collette , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.

Before: BOGGS and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges; BECKWITH, District Judge.


OPINION

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

This case involves a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU), which seeks release of information from the FBI about the agency's use of community-level racial and ethnic demographic data. The ACLU appeals the district court's holding that the FBI appropriately withheld records under Exemption 7(A), which deals with law enforcement information whose release could "interfere...

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