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Federal FOIA Appeals Guide
http://www.rcfp.org/federal-foia-appeals-guide

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iii. Glomar Response The government sometimes takes the position that even acknowledging that someone was involved in or the target of a criminal investigation would be a privacy violation. Courts have in some occasions sanctioned the practice of providing a “Glomar” response in such situations.

If you receive a Glomar response under Exemption 7(C) that refuses to confirm or deny the existence of records, you may attempt to overcome it by asserting an overriding public interest, such as those described above.

For example, a court held that the public interest in knowing whether the FBI withheld information that linked three individuals to the agency’s investigation of a murder — which could exonerate a death-row inmate — overrode their privacy interest in avoiding being associated with the homicide, and therefore overrode the agency’s Glomar response.122

For more information on overcoming “Glomar” responses, see the Glomar section within Exemption 1.

122 Roth v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 642 F.3d 1161, 1181 (D.C. Cir. 2011).
- See more at: http://www.rcfp.org/federal-foia-appeals-guide/exemption-7/ii-harm-disclosure/c-7c/iii-glomar-response#sthash.DkL5jIfu.k3P2c5wX.dpuf
http://www.rcfp.org/federal-foia-appeals-guide/exemption-7/ii-harm-disclosure/c-7c/iii-glomar-response
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Going to Court: 
 Litigating Your FOIA Request
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/foia/foia_guide/foia_guide_chapter6.pdf

FIGURE 6.1: 
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR FOIA LITIGATION 
 
This chapter is not a comprehensive guide to FOIA litigation. 
Please consult the following sources and/or an attorney for 
additional information: 
• Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws 2008 
(Harry A. Hammitt, et al, 2008). 
• Department of Justice FOIA Guide (March 2007), 
http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/foia_guide07.htm. 
• Resources for FOIA Legal Research on the Internet (from 
Public Citizen), http://www.citizen.org/litigation/free_ 
info/foic_lr/

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA
J. Patrick Gavin, a/k/a John P. Gavin, Civil No. 04-4522 (PAM/JSM)
also doing business as SEC Insight, Inc., 
Plaintiff,
v. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
United States Securities and Exchange
Commission, 
Defendant.http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-mnd-0_04-cv-04522/pdf/USCOURTS-mnd-0_04-cv-04522-7.pdf