All Party Parliamentry Group, et al. v. Dept. of Defense, et al., No. 13-5176 (D.C. Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseA member of the British House of Commons, an informal British parliamentary caucus, and an American lawyer representing both all filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552, request seeking various records from the CIA and other intelligence agencies. The district court dismissed their suit to compel disclosure, agreeing with the agencies that the requesters all qualified as "representatives" of the British government. The court concluded that FOIA requesters who have authority to file requests on behalf of foreign government entities are "representatives" of such entities when they file requests of the sort they have authority to file. Since the intelligence agencies conceded that under this theory these three requesters fall outside the Foreign Government Entity Exception, the exception posed no barrier to the FOIA requests at issue. Accordingly, the court reversed and remanded.
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