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ACLU OF NORTHERN CA v. F.B.I.

No. 16-15178.

881 F.3d 776 (2018)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA; Asian Law Caucus; San Francisco Bay Guardian, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 1, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

August E. Flentje (argued) and H. Thomas Byron III , Appellate Staff; Brian Stretch , United States Attorney; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, San Francisco, California; for Defendant-Appellant.

Angela Elaine Kleine (argued), Jacob P. Ewerdt , and Somnath Raj Chatterjee , Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, California; Christina Sinha , Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus, San Francisco, California; Lynda Lye and Julia Harumi Mass , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc., San Francisco, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before: Sandra S. Ikuta and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges, and James S. Gwin, District Judge.

OPINION

This case requires us to once again construe Exemption 7 of the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7), which governs disclosure of "records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes."

In analyzing FOIA requests to law enforcement agencies for disclosure of investigatory...

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