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Litigation

Oct. 23, 2012

Judge orders FBI to pay journalist's attorney fees over Reagan information requests

A federal judge ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to pay nearly half a million dollars to a journalist to cover the fees involved with decades of litigation over its failure to properly respond to Freedom of Information Act reques


By Hadley Robinson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A federal judge ordered the FBI to pay nearly half a million dollars to a journalist to cover the fees involved with decades of litigation over its failure to properly respond to Freedom of Information Act requests.


Seth Rosenfeld, a former reporter with the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle, also received $560,000 in attorney fees from the FBI in previous litigation, bringing...

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