BAKER v. F.B.I.

No. 16-4188.

863 F.3d 682 (2017)

Ben BAKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 12, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Topic , Attorney, Loevy & Loevy, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Sarah J. North , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Posner and Kanne, Circuit Judges.


This appeal challenges a district-court decision that dismissed with prejudice the plaintiff's suit against the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(B). Initially the plaintiff, Baker, sued to obtain all records connected to an investigation in which he was interested, but the FBI gave him only...

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