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REPORTERS COMM. v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

No. 20-5091.

3 F.4th 350 (2021)

REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS and Associated Press, Appellants v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION and United States Department of Justice, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 2, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katie Townsend argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellants.

Joseph F. Busa , Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were Jeffrey Bossert Clark , Acting Assistant Attorney General at the time the brief was filed, and H. Thomas Byron, III , Attorney.

Before: Millett, Katsas, and Walker, Circuit Judges.

In June 2007, FBI agents impersonated members of the press so that they could trick an unknown student who had threatened to bomb his school into revealing his identity. When news of the FBI's tactics became public, media organizations were incensed that their names and reputations had been used to facilitate such a ruse...

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