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PRISON LEGAL NEWS v. SAMUELS

No. 13-5269.

787 F.3d 1142 (2015)

PRISON LEGAL NEWS, Appellant v. Charles E. SAMUELS, Jr., Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 5, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald G. London argued the cause for appellant. With him on the briefs were Lisa B. Zycherman and Lance Weber .

Bruce D. Brown , Gregg P. Leslie , Bruce W. Sandford , Laurie A. Babinski , Peter Scheer and Charles D. Tobin were on the brief for amici curiae The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, et al. in support of appellant.

Wyneva Johnson , Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellee. With her on the brief were Ronald C. Machen Jr. , U.S. Attorney, and R. Craig Lawrence and Alan Burch , Assistant U.S. Attorneys.

Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge RANDOLPH.

The efforts of Prison Legal News ("PLN") to obtain documents from the Federal Bureau of Prisons are chronicled in the four district court opinions preceding this appeal. See Prison Legal News v. Samuels, 954 F.Supp.2d 21 (D.D.C.2013); Prison Legal News v. Lappin...

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