NACDL News: Department of Justice Successfully Blocks Public Access to Its Federal Criminal Discover

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed notice on Jan. 17, 2018, of its decision not to appeal the release of an extremely limited portion of its Federal Criminal Discovery Blue Book. The portion of the Blue Book that the court found was not work product was a tiny fraction — what amounts to not much more than a handful of pages — out of a manual that contains at least 265 pages.