Filed Date: July 21, 2011
Closed Date: 2012
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On July 21, 2011, the ACLU of Michigan group filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The plaintiff asked the court for an injunction, claiming that the FBI was not timely in its response, and that information was improperly redacted from documents that were received.
On July 27, 2010, the ACLU of Michigan submitted a FOIA request to the FBI requesting documents pertaining to the use of race and ethnicity to conduct assessments and investigations. More than four months later on December 22, 2010, the FBI released the first batch of documents to the ACLU. The documents included duplicate pages that had been redacted and none were specific to Michigan or the Detroit Field Office. More documents were released on September 29, 2011 and October 31, 2011. The FBI claimed that the documents were released in a reasonable timeframe and that any information withheld was proper under exceptions to FOIA.
On September 30, 2012, the Court (Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff) denied summary judgment for the ACLU and granted summary judgment for the FBI. The court found that the ACLU had not exhausted itsadministrative remedies and any information withheld by the FBI fell under the proper exceptions to FOIA.
On August 21, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the lower court's ruling. American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan v. F.B.I., 734 F.3d 460.
For PACER's information on parties and their attorneys, see: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4291888/parties/american-civil-liberties-union-of-michigan-v-federal-bureau-of/
Adelstein, Jay David (Michigan)
Amdur, Spencer E. (Michigan)
Anderson, Caroline J. (Michigan)
Anderson, Linda (Michigan)
Aponte, Milton (Michigan)
Borgsdorf, Stephen C. (Michigan)
Choudhury, Nusrat Jahan (New York)
Gurewitz, Mary Ellen (Michigan)
Kolbi-Molinas, Alexa (Michigan)
Korobkin, Daniel S. (Michigan)
Merriweather-Tucker, Brooke A. (Michigan)
Nickelhoff, Andrew A. (Michigan)
Salvatore, Jennifer B. (Michigan)
Adelstein, Jay David (Michigan)
Anderson, Caroline J. (Michigan)
Attorney, Noticing INS (Michigan)
AUSA, Christopher D (Michigan)
Bernie, Andrew Marshall (Michigan)
Brown, Jane Pansing (Michigan)
Byars, Michael James (Michigan)
Cargo, Shane Patrick (Michigan)
Cha-Kim, Stephen Seungkun (Michigan)
Chang, William S.W. (Michigan)
Chaudhury, Arastu Kabeer (Michigan)
Clopper, John Dalton (Michigan)
Coppolino, Anthony Joseph (Michigan)
Crowley, Megan Anne (Michigan)
D'Alessandro, Mark Thomas (Michigan)
Daughtry, Emily Ewell (Michigan)
Davis, Elliott Marc (Michigan)
DeVito, David Michael (Michigan)
Dolinger, Samuel Hilliard (Michigan)
Dunsky, Gregory Paul (Michigan)
Durkin, Timothy Michael (Michigan)
Ennis, Christine Wild (Michigan)
Enos, Brian William (Michigan)
Erickson-Pogorzelski, Anthony (Michigan)
Francis, Victoria L. (Michigan)
Freeborne, Paul Gerald (Michigan)
Gacki, Andrea Marie (Michigan)
Gianola, John Fulton (Michigan)
Griffiths, John Richard (Michigan)
Haas, Alexander Kenneth (Michigan)
Haroldson, Thomas E (Michigan)
Heiman, Julia Alexandra (Michigan)
Herb, Kimberly Lynn (Michigan)
Himel, Yoshinori H. (Michigan)
Howard, Roscoe Howard (Michigan)
Ikari, Carolyn Aiko (Michigan)
Inactive, Cynthia M (Michigan)
Inactive, Michael A (Michigan)
Josephson, Matthew Allan (Michigan)
Kabrawala, Ameet B. (Michigan)
Kahrs, Laurie Kathleen (Michigan)
Kneedler, Jennie L. (Michigan)
Lantka, Peter Michael (Michigan)
Larsen, Christian R (Michigan)
Leary, Peter Decklin (Michigan)
Lee, Jonathan Unruh (Michigan)
Lesperance, Karen Folster (Michigan)
Llewellyn, Nicholas P. (Michigan)
Martikan, Owen Peter (Michigan)
McArdle, Kevin William (Michigan)
McCord, Stacey Elise (Michigan)
Mercado-Santana, Victor M. (Michigan)
Morrison, Ross Eric (Michigan)
Parker, Katherine Lind (Michigan)
Phillips, Frederick S. (Michigan)
Porsia, Sara Christi (Michigan)
Powell, Amy Elizabeth (Michigan)
Prillaman, Debra Jean (Michigan)
Prose, Susan Begesse (Michigan)
Robinson, Kimberly Anne (Michigan)
Rosenberg, Brad Prescott (Michigan)
Sandberg, Justin Michael (District of Columbia)
Schraibman, Sandra M. (Michigan)
Scott, Olivia Hussey (Michigan)
Serafyn, Jennifer A. (Michigan)
Sheffield, Carlton Frederick (Michigan)
Shockey, Charles Ray (Michigan)
Singer, Benjamin D. (Michigan)
Smith, Alexandra F. (Michigan)
Smith, Jeffrey Michael (Michigan)
Snead, Jacqueline E. (Michigan)
Sneed, Sekret Tamara (Michigan)
Soloveichik, Layaliza K. (Michigan)
Soskin, Eric Joseph (Michigan)
Stegeby, Erik Kenneth (Michigan)
Swanson-Haan, Karen E. (Michigan)
Swinton, Nathan Michael (Michigan)
Tannenbaum, Andrew Harris (Michigan)
Theis, John Kenneth (Michigan)
Torrance, Benjamin Henry (Michigan)
Tuthill, William A. (Michigan)
Tyler, John Russell (Michigan)
Vincent, Katherine W (Michigan)
Wall, Robin Michael (Michigan)
Waterman, Brandon Matthew (Michigan)
Weiss, Daniel Herman (Michigan)
Westwater, Gisela A (Michigan)
Whittlesey, Brent A (Michigan)
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Docket sheet not available via the Clearinghouse.State / Territory: Michigan
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Key Dates
Filing Date: July 21, 2011
Closing Date: 2012
Case Ongoing: No
Plaintiffs
Plaintiff Description:
Michigan ACLU, non-profit non-partisan organization
Plaintiff Type(s):
Non-profit NON-religious organization
Attorney Organizations:
Public Interest Lawyer: Yes
Filed Pro Se: No
Class Action Sought: No
Class Action Outcome: Not sought
Defendants
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal
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Case Details
Causes of Action:
FOIA (Freedom of Information Act), 5 U.S.C. § 552
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Outcome
Prevailing Party: Defendant
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