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Thursday, June 24, 2004

BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court rules Cheney does not need to release energy task force records
Chris Buell at 10:23 AM ET

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that Vice President Dick Cheney must release records related to the energy task force he headed. AP has more.

UPDATE: The Medill School of Journalism has background on the case, while the ABA has the petitioners' brief here [PDF], as well as Judicial Watch's brief here [PDF] and Sierra Club's brief here [PDF].

UPDATE-2: The Court's opinion for Cheney v. US District Court for the District of Columbia is available here from Cornell's Legal Information Institute.



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