NYU Law School Gets Partial FOIA Win in Terrorism Case Request

New York University Law School’s Brennan Center for Justice got a partial win in a Freedom of Information Act case, as a federal court said the U.S. Justice Department must provide the docket numbers in terrorism cases that resulted in convictions.

The public interest in disclosure outweighs the criminal defendants’ privacy interests where there has been a conviction, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said.

The Brennan Center and Professor Charles Kurzman sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department’s Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys in 2018, seeking all records relating to public terrorism cases ...