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FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION v. U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

No. 15-15117.

869 F.3d 868 (2017)

FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 25, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan L. Segal (argued), Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Los Angeles, California; Diana Palacios and Thomas R. Burke , Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, San Francisco, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Sushma Soni (argued) and Sharon Swingle , Attorneys, Appellate Staff; Brian J. Stretch , United States Attorney; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendant-Appellee.

Bruce D. Brown , Katie Townsend , and Adam A. Marshall , Washington, D.C., as and for Amicus Curiae Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Concurrence by Judge Murguia

OPINION

In September 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki,1 an American citizen who had been targeted by the Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA") as a terrorist, was killed in a drone attack in Yemen. This spawned parallel litigations under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") for the release of legal...

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