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No FOIA Disclosure of Marshals’ Names

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Disclosure of Records, Discovery, Freedom of Information Act. Location: District of Columbia.

The names of the marshals who escorted the plaintiff on a particular occasion when he was injured were exempt from disclosure under FOIA because they were part of records compiled for law enforcement purposes, and the plaintiff did not show that the public's interest in disclosure outweighed the privacy interest ...

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