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Defense and Deference: Empirically Assessing Judicial Review of Freedom of Information Act’s National Security Exemption
Paulina Perlin[*] [Full text of this Article in PDF is available at this link] Introduction In 1981, the Washington Post submitted a request to the Department of Defense under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”)[1] for “information concerning the failed attempt in...
First Amendment Sentence Mitigation: Beyond a Public Accountability Defense for Whistleblowers
Mailyn Fidler[*] [Full text of this Article in PDF is available at this link] Introduction In October 2018, the federal district court in Minnesota sentenced former Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) agent Terry James Albury to four years in prison under the...