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CIR v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

No. 18-17356.

982 F.3d 668 (2020)

The CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 3, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Victoria Baranetsky (argued), The Center for Investigative Reporting, Emeryville, California; Andrew P. Bridges and Meghan E. Fenzel , Fenwick & West LLP, Mountain View, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Robin M. Wall (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Sara Winslow , Chief, Civil Division; David L. Anderson , United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, San Francisco, California; for Defendant-Appellee.

Aaron Mackey , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Mason A. Kortz and Kendra K. Albert , Cyberlaw Clinic, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for Amici Curiae Five Media Organizations and Sixteen Data Journalists.

Jack Jordan , Parkville, Missouri, as Amicus Curiae.

Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Milan D. Smith, Jr., and Patrick J. Bumatay, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

When Congress passed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, it sought to "permit access to official information long shielded from public view" and thereby "pierce the veil of administrative secrecy" that clouded the workings of federal agencies. Dep't of Air Force v. Rose,

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