TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 14, 2014

The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from a civil liberties group that had wanted access to an internal Justice Department memo that allegedly gave the FBI permission to obtain records from phone companies in terrorism investigations. The justices on Tuesday let stand an appeals court ruling that said the Justice Department could refuse to release the 2010 memo under an exception to the Freedom of Information Act, according to the Associated Press. The Electronic Frontier Foundation had argued that the public has a right to see the memo, while the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the document was part of the government’s internal deliberations and therefore exempt from disclosure. WRCB-TV has more.